Word: rivulet
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...just been sitting there observing how the snow melted off my shoes and made a little rivulet on the floor of the bus, when those words took hold...
...build a new empire in the jungles of Peru. The film, a kaleidoscope of the fabulous and the bizarre, would be noteworthy even if it stopped after the first riveting scene: 50 or so Spaniards, in armor and heavy battle gear, slowly descending a steep jungle hillside, a rivulet of quicksilver melting into nature's green vastness...
...UNSEEN BEAD of perspiration trickled its way down through the small of my back to the sashed waistline of my trousers, though I had been standing motionless since walking into the theater lobby. Perhaps I felt the little rivulet of sweat trailing down my spine precisely because I had not moved since finding a suitable spot where I could await the opening of the doors. In any case, my eyes flitted about the stuffy lobby, packed to the gills with presumably affluent moviegoers who could say two hours later that yes, they had attended the Boston premiere of the prospective...
...except for Gay who went out in the fields and disappeared, ducking under the stopped bank of a rock-banked rivulet) piled into Peg's overgrown, galvanized bathtub which sits smack in the middle of a lush, green rice paddy of a field like any other of the 1600 acres worth of fields on Pegleg's piece of land except it's where it is and not lost out in the real boonies of this vacant land--all of us getting all hot and drippy from the water bubbling in from the source (up 100 yards from the white bearded...