Word: awash
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...looking every minute of it, showed up to remind the assembled swells and the TV audience that Damn Yankees, which he had confected four decades ago, was again the liveliest show in town. The cathedral of commercial theater had reopened as a museum and a mausoleum. The place was awash in memories of more glamorous nights...
Tourists and shoppers flock instead to the McDonald's in Pushkin Square or to Tverskaya Ulitsa, Moscow's Fifth Avenue. There, dazzling neon signs invite motorists and pedestrians to savor the sensations of a swinging metropolis awash in restaurants, nightclubs and luxury boutiques. This is the new Russian capital, Moscow as Vegas of the North...
...childhood friends battle nameless evil, personified by Tim Curry as a malevolent clown) was bloated and out of control, while The Tommyknockers (more nameless evil, this time chasing Jimmy Smits) seemed derivative and halfhearted. Still, both were big hits in the ratings. At a time when TV is awash in docudramas and uplifting moral tales, King's dark, fanciful (though still moralistic) stories seem liberating...
...West, water polo draws crowds. The stands are usually awash with people, screaming at the ref, pointing out bad calls, egging on the players. But when senior Jen Gahan, former player at the U.S. Nationals in California, dreams of water polo, there is only silence. She has to stay focused, the former Crimson captain says, and whatever sounds reverberate have become just background noise...
...embargo is nearly six months old, and the military is still in power -- awash in gasoline and profits, thanks to the porous border with the Dominican Republic. The reality of oil-embargoed Haiti is nowhere more evident than in the capital of Port-au-Prince, which suffers from traffic jams. Though the brightly colored "tap tap" jitneys used by the poor are disappearing as gas prices soar, the military and the monied still manage to race around town in their Range Rovers and Toyotas tanked up on $150 of smuggled fuel. "The embargo exists in name only. They sell gasoline...