Word: mudding
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...opens up with the abrasive, honest creativity that soured critics and the general public to Bohemian art. He sours some of his friends, too, but his attempt to fight mediocrity with boldness stands out in a film that turns the lives of three vibrant, struggling, unusual people into three mud puddles...
...north 500 years later. Proud and aggressive, they formed a fierce nomadic warrior culture, herding sheep and patrolling the desert on horses first introduced by Spanish explorers. Then, as now, the Navajos had little use for village life. Each family ranged over miles of grazing land, adding easily built mud and cedar-log hogans as new generations arrived, and moving the sheep when grazing areas played out. If they used the land differently from the Hopis, they attached equal mystical significance to it, dotting the hilltops with shrines attesting to its power to provide...
...surprisingly, recollections that begin "I remember the time Bjorn . . ." are as scarce as tales of his defeat in a tournament. He is no stick-in-the-mud. In a night of horseplay with fellow pros at Jamaica's Montego...
...bent on winning the most difficult of the Triple Crown classics. Not surprisingly, Temperence Hill went off at 50-to-l odds. But the Belmont, with its withering distance of 1½ miles and its deep, fatiguing track-compounded this day by a rain that turned the surface to mud-has long been a race of upsets...
...even vaguely decadent in privileged Americans hiring others to do their duty for them. "As for "living," the French symbolist Villiers de l'Isle-Adam once said with languid wit, "our servants will do that for us." As for tending the radarscopes and rolling around in the mud and giving the Soviet Union pause and enforcing our foreign-policy-by-other-means, if necessary, too many Americans say we will let the hired help tend...