Word: swamp
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...condemning Hart for opposing federal handgun legislation have aired in New Jersey, which has tough state controls, but not in California. Hart's New Jersey commercials show him talking about economic redevelopment on a blacktop swath of the Meadowlands sports complex, which was built on a reclaimed swamp. His California ads are moody and emotive: Kennedyesque, he walks along a beach, skipping rocks into the ocean; on the sound track the thumping of a heart-a wordplay on his name-leads into his anthem that "new vision, new ideas, are the heartbeat of this country's future...
...eventually, by a small trail of satellite painters. And it was self-consciously "revolutionary": the year was 1848, and a secret society of dangerous young subversives had become one of the special phantoms of the English mind. The P.R.B. wanted to reform English art, to drag it from the swamp of maudlin genre and low-grade history painting. They believed, with the ardent simplicity of young minds, that this decay had set in three centuries before, with Raphael. Hence they wanted to go back before Raphael, appealing to a moment in history-the Middle Ages on the cusp...
Cable television has been a money-consuming swamp for the companies that own the three major networks. CBS folded its cultural channel in 1982 after losing an estimated $30 million. RCA, the parent company of NBC, dropped $17 million on the Entertainment Channel before closing it last year. ABC and its partner, Westinghouse, gave up on their Satellite News venture last October, selling out to Turner Broadcasting System for $25 million. Despite all that, ABC last week plunged into the coaxial morass again with its biggest cable venture ever. The company paid $202 million for the U.S.'s most...
...Fever Swamp," with music by Peter Gordon and choreography by Bill T. Jones, followed "Isba" A short, intense work created for the male members of the Ailey Company. "Fever Swamp," celebrated their strength, robust ensemble work, technique and expression. Seemingly light-hearted, it mirrored Peter Gordon's sharp staccato "Intervallic Expressions." The music's surface--slick, square and seemingly native--veiled an inner surface ripe with irregularities and good-humored ironies...
...March 18, Teresa Ferguson was kidnaped from a shopping mall in Merritt Island, Fla. Two days later her strangled body was found in a swamp. Terry Dianne Walden, 23, a Lamar University student, was reported missing in Beaumont, Texas, on March 23. Police discovered her body in a drainage canal three days later; she had been bound and stabbed to death. Sheryl Bonaventura, 18, was reported missing from a Grand Junction, Colo., shopping mall on March 29. Three days later, in Las Vegas,, Michele Korfman, 17, disappeared from a shopping mall where she had been appearing in a beauty contest...