Word: mudding
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...jokes for the machine's benefit. The vaudevender, once fed with 100, spews out the desired sweet along with one of Kenny's alltime greats. Sample: "Hey! My mother-in-law tried a mudpack treatment on her face, and for two days she looked great. Then the mud fell...
Dumped over deep cuts high in the mountains, the "overburden" piles up -until the rains come. Then the mud and boulders roar downhill, snapping big trees like toothpicks and tumbling onto farms, gardens and homes in the hollows below. "I just dread the day," says Alice Slone, principal of a school in Cordia, Ky., "when I'll pick up the phone and find one of the children has been buried in a strip mine slide...
...mists. The deck must be kept dry so that the men don't slip and fall. Everything is steel, so a fall can really do damage. Whatever you do, you get filthy. Your hands, your face, your shoes, trousers and shirt become smeared with grease, rust and mud chemicals. I never knew 14 days could take so long." Smiley Dunaway, 55, from Columbia, Miss., who has worked as a roustabout for 20 years, put two boys through college on his earnings. "But it cost me two-thirds of my life on the gulf to do it," he says wistfully...
...dreary as mud...
...Taylor is one of the best and steadiest national record sellers since the loudest days of Beatlemania. Sweet Baby James, his second album, has already sold 1,600,000 copies and, along with his hit single Fire and Rain, has been nominated for five Grammy Awards. A third album, Mud Slide Slim, will be released next month. Last month, Taylor was included in the predominantly classical Great Performers series at New York City's Lincoln Center. He has just finished a movie, Two-Lane Blacktop, for late spring release, and last week he began a sell-out national concert tour...