Word: grass
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Along Highways 41 and 287 to the mouth of Granite Creek there was a sprinkling of birds-no flocks-mostly blackbirds, but not a single small songster. I suppose if I had walked far enough into these grass- and sage-covered grounds, I would have found some, but always before (four years ago), they fairly swarmed here at the edge-so why go farther...
Then came a procession to the Ellipse, where letters had been marked out in white sand on the grass. Thousands planted more small flags in the sand until they waved like poppies, spelling U.S.A...
...Pope has no official embassy, such as the U.S.-deal primarily in church matters, but can also be channels of other information to the Pope. Much of the information, reported back to Rome, may eventually reach diplomats accredited to the Holy See; other diplomats can only dream of such grass-roots contacts in their host countries...
...huge paintings, two from Leningrad's Hermitage and the first version of Dance from New York's Museum of Modern Art, in the same hall. There the two rings of dancers confront each other in demonic energy, while between them, on the saturated flat green of the grass, under the deep blue of the sky, five vermilion figures are frozen with the concentration of listening and playing...
Turn it on and it turns you on. So claims Michael Shulman, 31, a New York publicity agent and creator of Op-Tickle, a psychedelic electrical toy that, he says, is just as groovy as grass, and a lot safer than the ubiquitous weed...