Word: swamp
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Swamp Angel, by Anne Isaacs; illustrated by Paul O. Zelinsky (Dutton; $14.99), presents a rousing rarity: a brand-new backwoods legend, written mostly for girls, that has the feel of real frontier storytelling. Angelica Longrider, born in Tennessee in 1815 and known far and wide as Swamp Angel, was "scarcely taller than her mother" at birth, and -- though her father gave her a shiny new ax to play with in her cradle -- "was a full two years old before she built her first log cabin." Her epic mud wrestle with the giant bear Thundering Tarnation has the rowdy, mile-wide...
...dream" -- when his four little children would not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character. He was right then, and now. But from the time of King's death to the present, the country has sunk deeper into the swamp, the essential error...
...Some clips of the ghost that watched the artist throughout her childhood are appealingly Gothic, but I was less interested in the exploration of the artist's homosexuality and childhood abuse that follows. In contrast to "Delirium," there is no overarching theme to rescue this video from a swamp of tedious personal history. Over a clip of unidentifiable squirming insect life, Stratton's voice introduces the video: "This video is about seduction... This video is about you." Excuse me, but this video is not about me. Later Stratton quips, "All my friends went on Prozac and did great work...
...proportions. After almost 6,500 Cubans were plucked from the waters on Tuesday and Wednesday last week, the Thursday-Friday total dropped to a bit more than 2,000. But the drop-off may have resulted only from the heavy rain, high winds and stormy waters that threatened to swamp the pitifully unseaworthy rafts before they could reach the picket line of more than 70 U.S. Coast Guard and Navy vessels patrolling beyond the 12-mile territorial limit off Cuba's northern coast...
...pressures on Castro at home have forced the Cuban leader to play a risky game. Castro's goal, argues a State Department official, "is to force us to negotiate the embargo." By threatening to swamp South Florida with another wave of refugees, Castro was gambling he could wring concessions out of the U.S. without destroying his own regime in the process. "What he's always good at is flipping things so his problem becomes someone else's," says the official. "This is his last card. He knows this is the one thing he can do to get our attention...