Word: sodden
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...since. Rock was always a music of turbulence, and history, for a while there, caught the beat. Woodstock was a dodge, a growth industry that tie-dyed much that was fierce and righteous in the music into something stuporous and evasive. The seeds of nostalgia were planted in those sodden, trodden New York State fields before the festival was over. Memories were rolled like joints. Smoke...
...Long Beach, where the police are under a shadow of alleged brutality. Officers were especially polite, clearing some paths but making no arrests. The clinic closed down. On the day before Easter, in Los Angeles, 725 arrests were made in a pelting rain that turned the rescuers into sodden clumps. Most of those arrested remained in jail over Easter, refusing to give their names or be released until felony charges were dropped against four of their leaders (including Terry). There have been hundreds of such local actions, with thousands of arrests, in the year since this new wave of activism...
Sidewalks littered with rotting garbage and crumpled packaging. Roadsides strewn with sodden mattresses, broken chairs and abandoned supermarket carts. Concluded a report by Britain's Royal Fine Art Commission last week: "London has become dirty, degrading and depressing...
...also seems to have provided a surfeit of writers to turn their freshly gilded lives into trashy novels. Among recent scribes who specialize in pressing readers' noses against the glass that separates them from the best of everything is Dominick Dunne (The Two Mrs. Grenvilles). His latest is sodden with the sort of unimaginative stock characters that have tumbled out of all the rich-and-famous pseudo fiction of the 1980s. The setting is Manhattan's Upper East Side, the pricey arena where old-moneyed families quietly count their fortunes in the millions and the newly minted are loudly working...
...time the fire was out at the National Academy of Sciences, 400,000 books had been incinerated. An additional 3.6 million had been damaged by water. In the weeks since the fire, workmen have been shoveling blackened remains of books into trash bins and hanging the sodden survivors on lines to dry in front of enormous electric fans...