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...Lawn must be barbered to the satisfaction of one's neighbors, or it earns their dirty looks and, in some tightly strung communities, a summons from city hall. The ideal lawn is featureless, a living imitation of Astroturf. Striving to achieve it soaks up water, money and weekend goof-off time in fantastic quantities...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can Lawns Be Justified? | 6/3/1991 | See Source »

There have been, intervening, two decades, a couple of marriages, one son, a hurtful professional divorce and a group of exquisite albums. But that Troubled Water question, framed as an up-tempo goof but phrased suddenly like a suicide note, still stands. Let's consider it more benignly, as a kind of standing offer: "Why don't you write me/ I'm out in the jungle/I'm hungry to hear you." And take him up on it, at last...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PAUL SIMON: Songs of A Thinking Man | 11/12/1990 | See Source »

...because you do not take a real cut at the ball. If you would put more power behind your swing, you would improve your batting average 100%." Bush added that he took the advice, and brought his average up over .250. This story has been retold as a goof on Bush: no bat then, no oomph now. But it ) cuts two ways, for Bush put in the work and did improve himself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: The Leadership Thing | 7/30/1990 | See Source »

...very serious now, and it's getting more serious all the time," Stone says. "Two years ago, it was very different. People saw it as a time to goof off on the field...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Harvard Art of `Rah, rah, rah' | 10/14/1989 | See Source »

DAVID LINDLEY & EL RAYO-X: VERY GREASY (Elektra/Asylum). Good-time music to dance to, or goof to, much of it with a Caribbean inflection. Produced by Linda Ronstadt, with minimal sheen and plenty of humor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Critics' Choice: Oct. 17, 1988 | 10/17/1988 | See Source »

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