Word: shucking
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...with specially groomed and graded trails, such amenities remain optional. Cross-country skiing can still conjure up the image of solitary figures etching fine lines in unbroken snow. Tim Murphy, a poet from Minneapolis, sees the sport as "a chance, if you seek out the right places, to completely shuck civilization and enjoy the pristine beauty of the snow and cold...
...Summer Work, O'Donnell tries to softly shuck away at the wadded stupidity for us. He does it with a certain inefficiency and no one's going to thank him for that static present. The work is full of problems, but an original play by a young writer (this by a sage) is supposed to be full of problems. His vision, which aspires to the peripheral and occasionally epiphanal, is sometimes just blurry, but then no one expected Ah, Wilderness! from someone not even out of the forest. O'Donnell's gift is what sticks, and it is some gift...
That's why to Harvard officials the implications of the power plant are so great. They see the plant as an impetus for other private companies to band together, as Harvard and the medical institutions in the area did, shuck the local power company, and opt for their own plant with more economical rates...
...next week's feature over mysterious loud-speakers while a don't smoke don't drink don't eat sign materializes up front. Or a lowly House film society that's been doggedly cranking out respectable and sparsely attended movies all year will try to bail itself out an shuck their principles by showing a bald-faced universal drawing card like Love Storyor The Graduate. Everything is Order--the cop on the watch, the way people file in to A,B,C and D. You might marvel at what Mailer would have called the "nursery school" architecture, and blink...
...Mississippi, the swindle theme runs deep, wide and muddy through the heart of American literature. Melville navigated the subject on the river boat Fidele, which he filled with assorted rascals for his novel The Confidence Man. It was no coincidence that in Mark Twain's Huckleberry Finn the shuck and the flim-flam cut across racial and class lines, from Nigger Jim's magical hair ball to the King and the Duke's pretentious ripoffs...