Word: cement
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...longer able to take care of herself. To the outrage of a visiting younger friend, her pastor wants to move her into an old-age home -- and, not incidentally, thereby make her give up the backyard Mecca of Magi, camels, owls and other mystical sculptures she has built from cement, rusting wire, ground-up glass bottles and found objects. Her house is a shrine to her, an eyesore to neighbors, a mark of witchcraft to children and an affront both personal and theological to the pastor and his church...
...Denver, shuttling to and from the big leagues for two years. In 1984 an aging Expos player soon to be a youthful Reds manager noticed him at once. "I was playing first base in Montreal," Pete Rose says, "when he fouled a ball straight back that caught some cement or it would have gone all the way out. I thought, 'Damn...
...high school. Today its low-slung buildings, white with red tile roofs, are thickly shaded by ancient oaks and framed by cerise bougainvillea. Even the trees are considered national monuments. When one of the giant oaks along Dorp Street dies, tree surgeons quickly operate and fill it with cement to keep it standing. The whole town testifies to a deep concern with preserving buildings, traditions and ideas...
Their biggest investment, though, was off the reservation. With an assist from Tribal Assets, the Passamaquoddies paid $16 million for New England's largest cement factory, the Dragon Cement plant in Thomaston, Me. Explains Zilkha: "The Indians want to upgrade their position in society as well as make money." One of their proudest moments came when a group of them toured their new factory. Says former Passamaquoddy Council Chairman John Stevens: "We almost couldn't believe the huge buildings. So many people working for us, calling us 'sir.' It was overwhelming...
...THRASHING FURY swells within your trembling shell. With your face twitching furiously in all directions, you passionately smash your chair through the fourth floor dorm window and jump head first onto the cold, hard cement...