Word: seeping
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Fantasies seep into facts. Entertainment and journalism drift back and forth across the borders. The bicameral arrangement of culture and politics dissolves. The baby of the (nonexistent) Murphy Brown flies out of its cradle and hovers like an illicit pink cherub over the American presidential succession...
Back at Radcliffe, the grim reality of warbegan to seep into our lives...
...Arkansas. Growers have been dumping tons of dried chicken excrement, known as litter, on croplands in the northwestern part of the & state. "We're well past the land's capacity to accept the waste," says Robert Leflar, a Sierra Club official; he and others fear the litter will seep through porous limestone and contaminate streams and groundwater. Clinton in 1990 appointed an animal-waste task force to look into the problem (a favorite tactic: his first move in almost any crisis is to appoint a task force or study commission), but it has yet to recommend any action...
...Whether term limits would cure this defect is another question. Although Byrd has been in the Senate for 33 years, he has only been Appropriations chairman for three). But, perhaps by coincidence, West Virginia is -- from an anti-Washington perspective -- probably the ideal place for the Federal Government to seep away to. Economically and culturally, if not geographically, it's about as far away from Washington as anyplace else in the country...
...Europe with big news. Good news, if you are not her father George (Steve Martin). She met a guy, she's in love, they're getting married. The first pleasure this sentimental comedy offers is the sight of Martin's reaction to Annie's plans: the tan seems to seep off his magnificently fretful face. He will pay for this wedding in many ways...