Word: mudding
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...Spewing mud from its tires, the motorcycle snarled into the sleepy farmyard-and plowed abruptly into a pole. Uninjured, the rider hopped off, inspected the damage, and turned to the startled farmer. "My name is Jill Savage," she said sweetly, "Could I please borrow your hammer...
Tanga, like all Africa, exhibits the contrasts of a land alive with tension between the future and the present. A magnificent road peters out into two muddy ruts; bright new fire engines race over dirt tracks to put out a fire in a village of mud and palm-thatch houses; a group of white-shirted intellectuals talking on a street corner at night are badgered for a cigarette by a man dressed up for an evening stroll in a top hat, blue-striped pajama bottoms, and a pair of torn, cutaway tails that he has found somewhere...
...tour last summer of Soviet collective farms, he was shown fields full of weeds, cabbages crawling with caterpillars, diseased corn. At a dairy farm in Byelorussia, 120 cows were jammed into a shed so filthy that the milkmaids took off their shoes rather than risk losing them in the mud. "What I saw was appallingly bad, rundown in every respect," said the expert last week. "But my tour was planned by the Russians themselves, so what I saw must have been far from the worst...
...much too long (2 hr. 15 min.), but it has strength as well as length. Cameraman Gene Shufton has artfully preserved what Actor Gleason calls "the dirty antiseptic look of poolrooms-spots on the floor, toilets stuffed up, but the tables brushed immaculately, like green jewels lying in the mud." The pool-shooting scenes are magnificently staged -the principals were coached by Willie Mosconi, top-ranking pool player in the U.S.-and tellingly edited by Director Robert Rossen (They Came to Cordura). The suspense in the first big game will surely bring sweat to any palm that has ever touched...
...could always spare a thought for his farm back in Quincy, invariably took time to investigate the quality of the local manure. The English manure was fine, wrote Adams, "but it is not equal to mine, which I composed of Horse Dung from Bracketts stable in Boston, Marsh Mud from the sea shore and Street Dust, from the Plain at the Foot of Pens hill." The Europeans found him "a Character...