Word: slab
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...most of Katrina's victims, recovery means fishing photographs out of mildew or figuring out how to afford a house where there is just a slab. For Republicans in Washington, Katrina recovery means showing they are on top of things, fixing broken government channels and coping with a whopping bill. President Bush plans to go back to the Gulf Coast again this week after spending his weekend on a rare two-night stay on the road to supervise the federal response to Rita. Congress will launch its investigation of the response to Katrina and take up such legislation...
...looters. I carried a rifle for almost a week until the National Guard arrived. My sister-in-law found two pieces of her great-grandmother's china. She set them on the slab of their house while she walked to my house to get a drink of water. When she returned looters had gotten them. Granted, my rifle was old, rusty and useless if a looter got too close, but from a distance I appeared lethal. A group of National Guardsmen tried to talk it away from me late last week, and I told them they could have it when...
Booze is the thematic undercurrent of Jimmy Breslin's fifth novel, a brutal slab of working-class life set among the Irish in the New York City borough of Queens. This is where Breslin learned his own trade as a newspaperman, reporting on the ways and means of the Archie Bunker set. His headlong bowling-ball prose can currently be found in the New York Daily News, where he is a Pulitzer-prizewinning columnist. There, as here, Breslin's lack of subtlety is his greatest strength. His characters are undereducated, abusive and conflicted by feelings of pride and shame. Table...
...last breath at thee, thou damnèd whale!" Yes, this version of the Melville novel has its starchy parts, and Peck takes a while to shake off his trademark decency and slip into Ahab's rasping obsession. Plus, the film's mechanical whale, which looks like a great slab of lard with a cold blue eye, kept sinking when it was meant to swim. But what matters is the saline tang of the location shooting and the acrid foretaste of doom as Ahab sails to his awful destiny, taking his crew and the audience with him on that terrifying ride...
Pretty soon the sun, an orange gob, slid down the cobalt sky, and the field lights came on. Slab-sided referees took their positions. The combatants appeared, 17-year-old Texans big around as the bole of a sequoia born when the local mail came by Pony Express. The Midland band played Dixie. Young drill teams strutted: the dancers had the tendony legs of Appaloosas--and orthodontia that cost the earth. A student gave the prayer over the loudspeaker: "Thanks for getting us here O.K., Lord, and I just pray you let the boys play without any harm to anyone...