Word: knee-deep
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...this time of year have dried the Rio Grande to a trickle at many points and turned the riverbed into a soggy avenue of escape. Illegal aliens, who are disparagingly called wetbacks because they have to swim across the river, can now cross at El Paso by wading through knee-deep water. Once on the other side, they dash into town and quickly melt into the general population. In other places the immigrants must still swim, row boats or paddle across the river in rubber inner tubes. Their greatest worry is always the border agents patrolling in vans, helicopters...
...cheery young girls, clad in white, approach us from far down the dusty country road. They pass two by two, voices twittering, hair shining, eyes dancing. They disappear slowly into the hilly countryside. Later, a kind farm apprentice helps four damsels dressed in their Sunday-best across an enormous knee-deep puddle. He carries one across and then returns for another, carries second across and then returns for the third, etc. Later, a small army of fox-hunters glide on horseback through an early morning mist. Across the foggy plain they ride, their red coats flapping behind them. Polanski takes...
...Felicitas is knee-deep in the age. She has left her mother's house in Brooklyn to study classics at Columbia. There she is seduced by a knavish political science professor of the Herbert Marcuse persuasion; she moves into the apartment he shares with two other women and a toddler named Mao; she is encouraged by her lover to sleep with a downstairs neighbor; she becomes pregnant by one or the other and heads for the abortionist's waiting room...
There were a lot of them once--ringing doorbells in small Iowa towns to peddle themselves like some new kind of Fuller Brush; standing knee-deep in New Hampshire snow banks, smiles frozen in place; shaking the hands of factory workers until their fingers went numb; giving speech after speech after speech until their voices cracked; eating creamed chicken until they could take it no more; talking about momentum, strategy, winning and losing--especially losing...
...Knee-deep in sheet music and charts, and surrounded by cinema heavyweights, Waits can't envision returning to his self-imposed exile in New York. "It's impossible now. One from the Heart is going to keep me a love slave till February...