Word: swamping
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...million from a tax on advertisers, both in state and out. But while the Governor's constituents have greeted the measures with passive acceptance, Martinez has run into a wave of prickly Madison Avenue opposition that has turned the advertising-tax ploy into something of a political Everglades swamp...
...Auchincloss's characters must struggle with this problem, one so hopelessly old-fashioned as to seem brand new. His graceful, straightforward narratives, so conventional in form, convey a rare impression: people behaving as if their actions meant something beyond the swamp of ego and the self...
Contrary to popular belief, the site of the new U.S. embassy in Moscow is not a swamp. But that is one of the few favorable comments the State Department can make about the controversial facility. According to a department report written last year, the swamp legend resulted from "some drainage problems during excavation" of the site. Still, the new chancery is 30 ft. lower than the old one, and evidence of eavesdropping devices has been found in its walls and structural columns...
...WENT I watched bayou swamp rats quaffing Old Milwaukee and muttering: "It jus' don' get no better than this." I viewed a troop of husky Canadians crooning: "I'll be a Moosehead man for life." Muzak voices whispered seductively in my ear: "Let It Be Lowenbrau." Ice-capped peaks and wild phallic stallions advised me to: "Head for the mountains." I was becoming dizzy. I had to get off this whirling dervish of archetypal images and subliminal cuts...
Drama, in particular, naturally lends itself to the issue of illusion versus reality--being as it is an illusion of sorts itself. When Shaggy and Scooby pulled the mask off the Swamp Monster to discover that it was none other than kindly Mr. Hoople, the caretaker, they were retracing the philosophical footsteps of Dorothy, Alice, and the ancient Chinese sage who asked himself, "Am I a butterfly dreaming...