Word: grass
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MALLE'S MAIN concern is the interrelation between politics and the primitive in India. He starts his journey outside Madras looking at two women on their knees shearing bits of grass with little spades. "As so often in India, you can look at a scene in two ways," he says: He sees the beautiful harmony of these women with the earth; then he senses that they are forced to scratch a crop from practically barren ground for their livelihood. He discovers similar naturalistic and political significance in most Indian scenes...
...little town of Colstrip, a coal mining electric utility, Western Energy, is operating an eleven-acre test reclamation project at a working mine. The company has regraded the land and planted trees and several species of grass for a total cost of $700 an acre, which adds only pennies per ton to the total cost of obtaining coal. But local farmers and ranchers are not convinced, because reclamation is extremely difficult in the semiarid region (average rainfall: 14 in. per year). "If I used as much fertilizer as they did on that test site," says Rancher Wally McRae, "I could...
ACOUPLE of summers ago I went to an antiwar rally in New York City's Flushing Meadow Park. There were only about 200 people at the rally, but since it was a nice day with a friendly atmosphere we mostly stretched out on the grass, feebly hoping that the speakers' assurances that peace in Indochina and big-name entertainment were both on the way would somwhow come true. Peace in Indochina is nearly as far off now as it was then; but the entertainment actually arrived in the shape of Pete Seeger, who spent an hour or so leading what...
...city was filled with air raid shelters, which had sandbags sprouting grass. One girl, dressed like most of the others in floppy shirt and trousers, wanted her picture taken in one of these shelters. Some wandering Russians wanted to take pictures of us. There were no beggars, prostitutes, bars or houses of ill repute-for all of which Hanoi was famous during the French period...
...board a train bound from Marrakech to Casablanca, a jaded American fashion model (Lindsay Wagner) meets up with a moody compatriot (Peter Fonda). She thinks he may be carrying a little grass to ease the boredom of the journey; he wants to be left alone to reflect on tribulations yet to come. "Where were you?" asks the model's travel companion (Estelle Parsons) when she returns to their compartment after being rebuffed by Fonda. "Out of my depth," the model replies...