Word: devoide
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Lawns lost their romantic associations with English manor living years ago. The concept of the lawn is now a thoroughly American one and one thoroughly devoid of romance. A mental image of suburbia literally couldn't exist without the lawn (and the fat balding man standing around in his boxers, watering it with a flaccid garden hose, but more on that later) --suburbs were in fact designed around lawns. Jenkins describes the flight to suburbia and the ascendancy of the single-family home with front yard as "the most characteristic single feature of European settlement in North America...
...Lawns lost their romantic associations with English manor living years ago. The concept of the lawn is now a thoroughly American one and one thoroughly devoid of romance. A mental image of suburbia literally couldn't exist without the lawn (and the fat balding man standing around in his boxers, watering it with a flaccid garden hose, but more on that later) --suburbs were in fact designed around lawns. Jenkins describes the flight to suburbia and the ascendancy of the single-family home with front yard as "the most characteristic single feature of European settlement in North America...
...Grant will probably bumble and stutter his way through yet another film, while Caan gets another turn at his Oscar-nominated Godfather role. Director Kelly Makin has only the flop Brain Candy: Kids in the Hall among her credits, and test screenings have been decidedly negative, citing a script devoid of laughs and a tired premise among its shortcomings...
...Carol Stream, Ill., fourth-graders found a new use for their discarded sneakers: recycled-rubber playground surfaces. Meanwhile, their peers in Knoxville, Tenn., built 17 bird feeders and drew wildlife to an urban area formerly devoid of birds and squirrels...
Calvert has the look of a philosophy grad student, but his clothes are not meant for library dwellers. He specializes in architectural gowns devoid of superfluous ornament. "I don't make dresses for hangers," he explains. "They are about the contours of the body." Calvert has already found a fan in the eminent (and like-minded) Geoffrey Beene, a designer not known for the promiscuous use of terms like absolutely fabulous. Says Beene: "There has been a great period of mediocrity in fashion, and William is the shining light at the end of that tunnel...