Word: asphaltic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...When 1 get back to Yonkers," he tells Tina at first, "I'm going to build me a house with an asphalt garden, with no leaves, no trees, no grass and no jungle. I'm going to build it right next to the race track, and I'm going to sit at home all day drinking beer and watching the television...
...becomes more involved with the girl, he changes his plans--instead of an asphalt garden, he wants a hot-house where he can grow flowers. He also changes his view of the war: "Someone must have all the maps and charts which make this killing worthwhile," he says in the beginning; by the end (he and the girl are shot by the Viet Cong), he is convinced that nothing could make it worthwhile...
...since Kubla Khan landscaped Xanadu. Conceived by Landscape Architect Lawrence Halprin, the master plan, to be executed with some $15 million in public and private contributions, would turn the city's labyrinthine back alleys into pedestrian greenways or community plazas, vacant lots into vest-pocket parks, and dreary asphalt into brick or patterned pavement. Like Lady Bird, who is now on the list for the first time, Washington ought to become one of the ten best dressed in the world...
...dialogue, and it never totally unravels. After six years of teaching at an American university, Teddy, a philosophy professor (Michael Craig), brings his wife (Vivien Merchant) back to North London to meet his widowed father, a bachelor uncle, and two younger brothers. An amoral crew with the ethics of asphalt-jungle cats, they live in "the land of no holds barred"-a grey, womanless room in a grey, womanless house. The father (Paul Rogers) is a bull walrus spuming through yellowed tusks against the dying of his authority. The older brother, Lenny (Ian Holm), is a dapper spiv...
...STAGE 67 (ABC, 10-11 p.m.). "The Legend of Marilyn Monroe," narrated by John Huston-who directed her first well-known film (The Asphalt Jungle) and her last (The Misfits...