Word: seeps
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Broward counties. They get much of their water from a formation called the Biscayne Aquifer, extending from Miami on the east to the Everglades on the west. But heavily populated Miami and its environs draw so much water that the water table is rapidly falling, permitting sea water to seep into the aquifer. Only in the Everglades, where the land over the aquifer is still unpaved, can this reservoir be effectively resupplied. To make matters worse, Florida has been suffering through a decade of sparse rainfall, which has dried up many swamps, at least temporarily. This year the drought...
...director, since he claims he likes to set up situations in which the acting evolves spontaneously. Maybe he really does know what he's doing--maybe his vision is unfailing--but somehow there's always this nagging incompleteness in his movies. The confidence of a genuine masterwork seems to seep out of Five Easy Pieces, but it's almost impossible to tell why. He has an obsession with isolated, emotionally-distant characters, and he shows them with remarkable clarity. One wonders, though, if he's really exploring them. The King of Marvin Gardens might have been his best movie...
Dallas, which premiered in April 1978, established the pattern: a big, powerful family whose obsession with sex and money makes them miserable and the TV audience insatiable; guilt-edged lust that skulks through the generations, seeking spectacular revenge; feuds and affairs that seep over the interwoven plots like warm Brie over a Triscuit. These mechanisms had propelled daytime drama-the radio and TV soaps-for nearly half a century before the Dallas pioneers, Lorimar Productions, streamlined them for prime time. Dallas proved that mobile America would sit still each week for a continuing story of byzantine complexity. Since the current...
...directions, he certainly encouraged them. The Doobies, who over the years have probably had more recruits than the all-volunteer Army, picked up Guitarist Jeff Baxter from Steely Dan, and that group's inverted rhythms, strange melodic breaks and jazzy riffs began, in homogenized form, to seep into the Doobies' music. Johnston dropped out of the group in 1975-accumulated years of hard touring and hard partying had given him an acute case of ulcers -and that same year Baxter suggested another draftee, a Steely Dan tour keyboardist named Michael McDonald...
...past, ground water was kept pure because the soil at the earth's surface could be counted on to act as a filtration system, a kind of geological "kidney" that would scrub out bacteria and other insoluble contaminants placed on or in the ground before they could seep down to the water table, the ground water's upper limit. But this filtration system does not reliably screen out the waste chemicals cropland now leach into the soil from a variety of sources, including cropland that has been sprayed with pesticides, and industrial dumps like the pools into which...