Word: upstreams
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...years," Steven Bochco told an interviewer recently, "I've made a living swimming upstream." But for the past three or four of them, TV's brash experimenter has been thrashing mostly in dry creek beds. The creator of Hill Street Blues and L.A. Law tried a musical police show (Cop Rock), an "adult" cartoon (Capitol Critters) and a sexy law show (Civil Wars). Now, with his new ABC series, NYPD Blue, Bochco is back where he is most comfortable: chronicling the dark, turbulent world of big-city law enforcement. And fighting a raging current...
...before), was scheduled to pass St. Louis, Missouri, on Monday. It should roll by Cairo, Illinois, about 180 miles to the south, by Friday. There, the Ohio joins the Mississippi, which moves into a broader, deeper channel that should be able to carry all the water pouring in from upstream without overflowing the levees, dikes and dams south of Cairo. The people, businesses and farms lining the Father of Waters for the roughly 600 miles south to New Orleans should be safe. Upstream, houses, roads and fields should begin to resurface above the new lakes and inland seas covering parts...
There will be more tears later, and not of joy or friendliness, as the damages mount. Already, amid the determined good cheer, there are those like Mike Johnson who curse the river, the skies, the dams and levees upstream (for holding altogether too well and increasing pressure downriver), and the government. Mike, an out-of-work machine operator, and his wife Roberta and three children were ordered out of their two-story brick house in the St. Louis suburb of Lemay on July 9 at 3:30 a.m. Every day since, Mike has returned to the house in a neighbor...
...since this was essentially Miller's own story, he began at the beginning--as a queer "spermlet" swimming upstream in search of an egg to fertilizer. Then, having in a sense created himself, he passed through an infancy surrounded by "mini dykes and fags" to puberty, when he "tried to use Noxzema to jerk off," to AIDS and the election of Ronald Reagan. By this time, he was spitting out his words in an angry spray of saliva that drifted over the first few rows of the audience...
...They were both in the center no man's area,' moving in opposite directions," said Charles Butt, the varsity lightweight coach. Rules for rowing traffic dictate that boats going upstream must row on one side of the river and boats going downstream on the other...