Word: sweets
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Watch out folks, the Bounding One, the Bod, the Limey, the Mighty Mite, the Sweet Kraut, the Duck, the Stoneham Scrapper, the Heartbreak Kid, Vaya Con and Smiley...
...Sweet (as opposed to sour) Kraut," the "Duck" and "Vaya Con" are Hunt's code names for Gretchen Klapfor, Leslie Voit and Anita Diaz, respectively. All three runners suffered injuries last year but Hunt says they have great potential to boost this year's squad. (In case you didn't figure it out, Diaz' nickname dervies from the Spanish saying "Vaya con Dios", which means "go with God." Hunt says, "If she ever becomes captain, I can tell the whole team, 'Vaya con Diaz' and they'll have a great leader...
...poor sort of granite. Less-favored areas of the nation have mudslides, floods, strip mining, droughts, marching armies of real estate agents with compound eyes and side-mounted mandibles and, yesbygod, a volcano. (Mount St. Helens ash in the air caused the June frost here, sure as raccoons eat sweet corn, and never mind that we have June frost 18 years...
...gray-yellow dust on either side of Charlotte Street. The dust is thicker than the ash from Mount St. Helens. It fills the air. It smells of nothing organic but manure, yet even that smell is not precise; it is tinged with an odor at once dead and sweet. Only fragments in the rubble-wire nettings, a square of bathroom tile ?suggest that life ever existed in that place. Beyond the dust lawns, sudden green weeds have begun a crazy garden, as if the wilderness had decided to reclaim the neighborhood...
Mazursky's 1969 Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice was a sharply sketched comment on sexuality in the Esalen age. In the years since, his work has gone soft; with An Unmarried Woman, he finally arrived at his present state, where he sentimentalizes the mildly eccentric, celebrates sweet-spirited rebelliousness and generally goofs off on promising themes. The result has been a series of truly enervating movies, of which Willie and Phil is but the most spineless. Its three leading players do what they can with the material, but their task is quite hopeless...