Word: plodding
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Sophomores, juniors and seniors will be deluged by hundreds of handouts, flyers and pamphlets as they plod through traditional registration rites before racing off for a last weekend of freedom...
...owning their very own campers, motorboats and other ecologically unsound objects. An actor, or writer, of parts might have made such a figure into a tragically flawed hero, someone like Willie Stark in All the King's Men. But there is no awareness of this dimension as we plod on with this clod Kovak through the long years until he gets his comeuppance, first at a Senate committee hearing, then at the wrong end of some shotguns...
...military airfield at Dire Dawa, dozens of green-and-brown-camouflaged MiG-17s and 21s thunder off into the sky each day to strike at Somali forces hundreds of miles away. As they roar down the runway, mules pulling carts plod past the barbed-wire boundaries of the tarmac, carrying jugs of water. The combatants themselves are hardly better off. There are indications on both sides that the greenest troops are pushed into the front lines. One captured Somali who said he was 13 years old was shown off by the Ethiopians in Harar. The youth claimed he had been...
...applaud the arrival of a new "school" of film. And once the Sarrises and Gilliatts affix their all-important seal of approval, off go the chic-conscious lemmings ready and willing to plunge into a two-hour morass of clipped dialogue and plots that never really unfold but merely plod...
...what does a rooter do when there is no one to blame, when he knows the team has no choice but to plod along? My hunch is he doesn't stick around for long to watch. And thus the Orioles' plight becomes a matter of survival, not of success...