Word: messing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...been brooding privately about how Americans seem to have lost their enthusiasm for wide-ranging health-care reform. As much as they want change, he tells listeners, they fear government's ability to make it. "As we say at home," he observes, "a lot of people think government would mess up a one-car parade...
...quack catharsis from every form of spousal and parental abuse. We're shouting at each other in National Enquirer headlines and have promoted tabloid newspapers and TV programs, once on the fringe of journalism, up to its hot center. It's Armageddon with commercial breaks. Why, the whole bloody mess could be straight out of an Oliver Stone movie...
Marilyn Monroe and the rest of those icons cemented in American celebrityhood on the world-famous Hollywood Walk of Fame are sinking, tilting or cracking. The cause: boring beneath the surface, in order to build a subway extension in car-dependent L.A. Transit officials called the mess "reparable and not unusual for tunnel construction of this nature...
...only constant in the whole mess is Charlie Watts' solid, reliable drumming. Never flashy but never too understated, Watts still brings it home with aplomb. Then again, he's never had an extended solo in his whole Stones career. Maybe those jazzy side projects have helped him to stay the course...
While the mess was not of the magnitude of last year's Mississippi flood, which caused $12 billion in damages, Georgians had to reach all the way back to General Sherman's Civil War march to the sea to recall anything comparable. Some 10,000 sq. mi. were under water, an area the size of Massachusetts and Rhode Island combined. Thirty-two people died and 40,000 were temporarily homeless. Thousands of acres of peanut, corn, soybean and other crops were destroyed, including Georgia's renowned peaches, which were almost ready for harvesting. Crop damage was expected to reach...