Word: brush
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...work outdoors. Based upon the philosophy of the CCC, the forestry camps are intended to offer their workers labor that is "both productive and therapeutic" by allowing them to trade the crime-wise environment of the old reform schools for a chance to serve society by fighting fires, clearing brush, and controlling pests in California's great outdoors...
...show is essentially a series of fast moving vignettes backed by a rock band playing in the dark recesses of the upper stage. They brush on life, love, war, politics, and alienation but the overt theme is usually beside the point. It is the style of each individual piece that really makes the show. Some have a verbal brilliance that suggests what Printer or Joyce might have done if they had been born in this country. One skit, called "Image Sales," is a staccato recitation of brand names, commercial pitches, and want ads that conjures up visions of America choking...
...from the period. (One other bit of nostalgia I could go for in a big way would be the removal of the floor mikes that distort half the sound of this show. Who wants to hear a chorus sound as if it's singing in the middle of a brush fire...
...Belgrade airport, he began to make it clear that Russia would gladly relax its pressures on Yugoslavia-for a price. That price: at least a partial return of Yugoslavia to the Soviet camp. While President Josip Broz Tito stood unsmiling at his side at the airport, Brezhnev seemed to brush aside Yugoslavia's nonaligned status by referring to the country as a member of the Communist bloc. Later, at a banquet in the handsome marble federal reception hall, Brezhnev toasted the two countries as being united "through common class interest, through the solidarity of ultimate goals...
...make the meson lab's tubes. Fitted with a small leather harness to which a strong, lightweight string was attached, Felicia unhesitatingly scurried the full length of the tube. She delivered her end of the string to workmen, who tied it to a swab consisting of a brush and cloth soaked in cleaning fluid. The swab was then pulled back through the length of the pipe, leaving the interior immaculate...