Word: mud
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Cavuoti, the high-scoring 1988 Ivy Rookie of the Year, was held scoreless. Griffith managed one goal on a shot that barely slithered through the mud past Cheeseman...
Some Homecoming. The Adelphi Kick Line, performing a risque half-time routine to Patrick Hernandez's "Born to Be Alive" in the Styles Field mud, had a better day. The three courageous members of the Adelphi Chorale Society who croaked their way through a painful rendition of their alma mater had a better day. The last-place New York Islanders from Uniondale didn't make the playoffs, but they probably would have had a better day if they...
...taxi pulled away from the Tambov train station, spraying mud and loose gravel from the potholed roadway. The landmarks were typical of a rural Russian administrative center. A tank seemed poised to topple off the memorial honoring the heroism of local citizens in the Great Fatherland War, as World War II is known. A crane loomed above the construction site of the new Communist Party headquarters, just across from an imposing statue of Lenin thrusting his arm into the future. Political posters and slogans of a type that had all but vanished from Moscow could be seen on billboards...
When I told my mother I would be traveling to the Tambov region with an American, she got very upset. "Are you crazy?" she said. "Just think of where you are taking him. There's mud everywhere. You'll get bogged down on some road. There is nothing in the stores either...
Despite the chrome and modern conveniences of Sheremyetovo International Airport, the old city quickly pulls you into her familiar, exhausting, yet not altogether unpleasant embrace: the slush and mud of the broad avenues; the air that smells of bad cigarettes, carbon monoxide and disinfectant; the monotony of dun-colored buildings; the occasional startling glimpse of a golden-domed church or pastel-walled czarist mansion; the dark masses hurrying by or huddling in their inevitable queues to buy what little is in the stores. Much more than merely familiar, Moscow today seems as immutable, as depressingly eternal as ever...