Word: grass
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Jean Renoir's Picnic on the Grass (Le Dejeuner sur L'Herbe) with a Max Fleischer, Betty Boop short, tonight only...
...governorship went without heinous scandal and was highlighted by Sunshine Laws that opened up closed meetings of state agencies; he is not a lawyer and is not from Washington, as he repeatedly tells acquaintances soon after the introductory handshake; and, federal campaign spending regulations notwithstanding, his grass-roots campaign is at a distinct financial disadvantage to those of other "liberal" Democratic candidates because Carter has relatively few fatcat backers). And his friendship with the Allman Brothers Band and other Capricorn Recording artists out of Macon is, it seems, genuine, if highly profitable of late--the four Carter benefits scheduled...
...common elements to be easily recognizable to us. Then again, the reason might be that the author has a conscious desire to reach the masses, the vast majority of people who pick up very few books. It could be that the novelist wants to get back to his own grass roots. Possibly the author is attracted by something as mundane as the sheer numbers of the common people or the ease with which one can fantasize about them...
...Just as they break through a clearing, a light rag picks up for background music, establishing a light mood. As sunlight streams through the trees, Jake starts up a game of all-American baseball with his son; there's something whimsical about this little group eating lunch on the grass, all of them feeling uncomfortable in their stiff clothing. This thread of light comedy runs throughout Hester Street...
Down by the bay, San Francisco's Marina Green was filled with people shaking off the damp of the past few rainy weeks. There were joggers, dog walkers, Frisbee flingers and one lanky gentleman intently reading on the grass. No one bothered to peer over his shoulder. And that was just as well. James Louis Browning Jr., 42, the U.S. Attorney prosecuting both Sara Jane Moore and Patty Hearst, was studying a document recovered from the house where Patty was captured. Why bring such sensitive reading to the park? "Well, I wanted to get some sun," said Browning...