Word: sodden
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...good thing going. They paid him to do their traveling. He caught the planes, sat out the cancellations, endured bores and bacteria. Then he chucked out all the bad stuff and wrote lovely, whimsical books about the rest: horse racing, trout fishing, quirky people who turn comical, not sodden, after a glass or two. Traveling Light is the title of one of his airy collections, and Barich seems as if he is about to continue with such beguiling folderol as he commences Big Dreams (Pantheon; 546 pages; $24), which records a long meander around California. Wistfully, lightly, the author recollects...
...story goes that two chorus members of the Glyndebourne Festival Opera were returning to the green but sodden meadows of Sussex, England, after a brief break in London. One said, "I'm so sick of all this rain." Replied the other: "Yes, but it is privileged rain...
...worry about than Kremlin intrigues and superpower summitry. Injuries from slips, falls and other pedestrian mishaps were reported to be running as high as 1,200 a day because the city can no longer afford enough tools and workers to clear the filthy, slush-filled streets. Mountains of sodden cardboard boxes are piling up behind new sheet-metal stands, where vendors sell cigarettes, candy and drinks at train and metro stations...
...Take your time. To make an ordinary film requires a year or more. Last Action Hero -- unusually expensive, technically complicated, conceptually ambitious -- got the go-ahead barely 10 months ago, and production continued into March (with reshoots in May), making the movie even more costly and sodden than it might have been. Last Action Hero, says the head of one studio, is "an advertisement for stupidity. They way overproduced, and they way overspent...
...sodden cant, no cliche of therapeutic culture goes unused. If we are at the point where any attempt at aesthetic discrimination can be read as blaming the victim, is there any use in choosing anything over anything else -- or in holding a Biennial...