Word: backyard
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...thunder of artillery from the eastern front. In February, during the devastating Allied air raids against Dresden, 100 km away, we saw the night skies light up to the northwest. The big bomber streams, gatherings of silvery dots against the sky, routinely rumbled past as we watched from the backyard; air-raid sirens sounded, but the planes were not targeting a little town of no industrial or military significance. For me and my neighborhood friends, the most dramatic exposure to reality came the day a Luftwaffe Me-109 fighter slipped low over the houses, its engine silent, and crashed...
...remembered my father pitching wiffle balls to his clearly not athletically-talented son in our backyard. I remembered family trips to the ball park, especially sitting two rows back behind home plate one very hot day in late August. I remembered the one professional hockey game that I have attended in my life, to which my father--the quintessential hockey hater--happily took...
...find was just the pick-me-up I needed. Bounding up the stairs to the circulation desk. I began to wonder who actually subscribed to these magazines--fairly well-designed, professional looking publications, not the sort of thing one imagines lying around on the floor of the neighbors' backyard septic tank turned nuclear shelter...
...Maestro has filled his backyard with cow sculpture, created hundreds of clay cadillacs (the modern cowboy's horse), painted with air brushes and fabric paint and appliqued sequins and playing cards onto his works. Though the work does a very good impression of kitsch, it is distinguished by its relentless variety and Gaxiola's unique, informed stance towards the art World...
...When Time asked in a poll last week whether people believe in miracles, 69% said yes; and the fastest-growing churches in America are the Charismatic and Pentecostal congregations whose worship revolves around "signs and wonders." Tens of thousands of people gather in a pasture in Georgia or a backyard in Lubbock, Texas, because of reports that the Virgin appears in the clouds...