Word: grass
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...walls, he catches their undulating yellow reflection. When they make love in a grotto, he touches the French greenery with junglelike lushness. He creates out of Vadim's always bizarre locations (waterfall, soccer match, duck pond, crumbling villa, go-go costume party) a continuous paradise. The movie seems all grass and gold...
...name a building Fall Hall." As the patrol inched toward a helicopter pickup point, the Marines fanned out in a protective arc. Fall was walking slowly along the edge of a dirt road talking with a combat photographer when his boot came down in a high clump of grass. The Marines saw his body lift into the air even before they heard the explosion. Though a Marine patrol had passed safely through the area only seconds before, Fall's boot had come upon a buried land mine left by the Viet Cong. Badly maimed by shrapnel, Fall sank...
...national level, the spirit of ecumenism has produced plenty of talk about interfaith union, but much of the real action is now taking place at the grass roots. In a number of U.S. communities, togetherness has become a reality, as churches of different denominations have cooperated to create new ecumenical parishes. Though it can take any of several forms, the ecumenical parish has behind it a basic conviction that the churches must cast aside their denominational autonomy and pool resources to meet the changing needs of community and religious life...
Ensconced in his panelled study, surrounded by teacups and undergraduates, Finley takes unabashed delight in describing the advantages of an earlier time, the time of which his entire manner is a gracious remnant. "In my day," he says, "college was like a dirt country road with grass growing in the middle. Now it is like Route 128, and graduate school is like a turnpike. But what if you don't want to go to Albany...
...films. Many of them are poets and painters who belong to the New Bohemia and can be found on Manhattan's Lower East Side or in San Francisco's North Beach. They are apt to wear hair to the shoulders and beards to the ears; some smoke grass and turn on frequently with LSD. A few can count on a small, steady income from film rentals. But most under ground moviemakers, though their movies as a rule cost less than $500, feel lucky if they break even...