Word: mustering
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...recurrent theme throughout the drama as the likelihood of Babe's downfall heightens the need for people to pursue their dreams. When Meg bitterly assails herself and her family for her foiled singing career, and Lenny whines on about being a victim of a psychological aberration, both sisters muster the courage to "go for it." It is this triumph of will, of determination not to repeat their mother's easy way out, that enables Babe to retain faith, but more importantly, elevates the play beyond sheer amusement. The appropriate balance between comedy and more serious drama, however, is precarious...
There is another kind of mobilization in Nicaragua: a daily muster to find food. Men, women and children line up outside government-run "supermarkets of the people" in Managua and other cities. Their hope is to be first for whatever minimal, unpredictable rations of meat and chicken may be available that day. Even the early risers are frequently disappointed. At a typical scramble, housewives confront a butcher who tells them that the meat locker is empty and he has "no idea" when more supplies will arrive. Milk and fish are scarce, fresh eggs are the rarest of treats, and produce...
...floor and ripped their tables from the sockets. Bar patrons were showered by their nightcaps and banged by flying glassware. Moviegoers were hurled into screaming heaps. Promenaders were slammed against bulkheads. In the Belvedere lounge the dancers picked themselves up from the floor and dazedly headed toward muster stations...
Such foul-weather forecasts have rattled Newport before. Yet ever since they first wrested the old silver mug from a fleet of the best yachts the British could muster in 1851, the Yankee sailors have somehow managed to beat off all comers. What is different about this America's Cup summer is not that the Americans have slipped, but that the competition has got noticeably better, especially the yachtsmen from Down Under...
...York Yacht Club, custodian of the Cup and grand panjandrum of its defense, has howled that the radical keel is an infraction of the 12-meter rule, even though it passed muster earlier this year before keen-eyed measurers, including the club's own tape man. With its lowered ballast and jetlike wings, the innovative yacht can slice through the water with less turbulence, turn virtually on a dime, and stand much more erect than its rivals when they beat into the wind, thereby drawing more power from its sails. Remarkably, all this seems perfectly within the rules. Even...