Word: grass
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...elevated to the status of matador de toros and in which he survived a near-fatal goring. Every tense moment in this corrida is the cue for a flashback: the future El Cordobés growing up in an earth-floored hovel where he sometimes has only grass to eat; serving a grueling apprenticeship at village fiestas where the only available medical care is a slosh of alcohol in an open wound; rising under the tutelage of a crafty promoter named El Pipo, compiling a fortune of $8,000,000 and becoming the idol and symbol of a new, liberalized...
THEATER COMPANY OF BOSTON, University of Rhode Island, Kingston. Eugene Ionesco's Exit the King, an absurd drama about death, July 18-21 and July 25-28; Arthur Miller's autobiographical After the Fall, Aug. 1-4 and 8-11; a play by Günter Grass, The Plebeians Rehearse the Uprising...
...over 1966. Because of its sprawling size, which isolates branch offices and gives any getaway car 1,000 escape routes, it is No. 1 in bank robberies. Because of its proximity to Mexico, it is the marijuana capital of the world. The L.A.P.D. seized 21 tons of grass last year, enough to orbit a good-size army. Because of its balmy climate, it has, notes the chief, a "twelvemonth crime culture...
...graders, are the displaced persons of the rock revolution. Today's groups sing about such everyday teen-age concerns as war, alienation, racism and narcotics. But to quite a few subteens, especially the more sheltered ones, having a social conscience means worrying about getting home by 10 p.m., grass is just grass, sex is necking, and the byword is don't trust anybody over...
Lying on the grass, bare chest upwards, legs spread, he bellowed to a pretty on the third floor of Weld, "Wanna go to a party...