Word: grass
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sort of new maturity. At the same time, a new generation of artists and writers is now coming of age, with results as mixed as they are varied--contrast the sad products shown at the Orson Welles's German film festival last spring with the literary success of Gunter Grass, Siegfried Lenz, or Boll...
WHEN THE SUN has almost set behind the bus I begin to smell something burning not a cigarette smell, and I turn in my seat to look toward the college students in the back. It smells like grass, but there's nothing going on, and nobody else seems to notice Maybe it's the smoke from some factory. There are whole cities, each with its own strange smell in this country, and may be we're passing one out there in the darkness...
...like fun, and he doesn't have to persuade me to take it. As I suck in the gas, cooler than the air in the living room. I feel giddy but not dizzy, and I laugh a little. It feels like the moment before I passed out in the grass during recess in fourth grade, When Egghead sat on my back and I breathed in and out hard forty times as hard as I could. I think about explaining how it feels, but figure it's too involved for people I don't really know yet. By now, everyone...
...other customers laughed when Mary Anna Anderson tried to rent a Rototiller so she could plow her rock-filled yard and plant grass around her house in Van Nuys, Calif. Only men can rent power equipment, a salesman for Northridge Equipment Rentals told her curtly and without explanation. Anderson, 28, who had just graduated from Hastings College of the Law in San Francisco but had not yet been admitted to the bar, said that as soon as she was a full-fledged lawyer she would sue. Two months ago she was and she did. Filing her complaint in Van Nuys...
...giving the title an ironic dou ble twist. But for President watchers, there is an even more cutting irony. As the special Kennedy sense of in finite promise has lost its magic, inevitably the man who suffered most by comparison with Camelot is now benefiting. Out of the long grass adjoining Camelot a golf ball soars into the sun. Five years ago, who would have believed it? Ike Eisenhower is out of the rough and decently back on history's fairway...