Word: watered
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...that sloshing around pays off. Fields' 14-employee firm, Howard Fields & Associates, last year exceeded $1 million in revenues. Says he: "Call me a water swami." But never call...
...attempting to construct a life vest tha would prevent Navy pilots from becoming hypothermic when their planes land in water, a center spokesman said...
...Women's water polo at Easterns (Bucknell...
PERCY HAS a computer in his head, apparently. More unfolds the water-supply plot with the symmetry and cunning of a Creole Hercule Poirot. But agents more intimidating than Bionic Bridge players lie at the end of the molar-mystery. More discovers a kiddie-porn racket which Percy depicts too graphically for my taste...
Percy extends the metaphor to man. We all drink the water. We're all zonked out on our separate somas. But Percy's kiddie-porn portrait shocks without edifying. The metaphor, a valid one, is too sensationally packaged. Why stoop to conquer? Why exploit to elevate? Percy's better than this...