Word: grass
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...phrase of the day-from which Pop art was sprouting. Though as a painter he was not interested in the icons of popular culture, Smith was fascinated by its mechanics, particularly by what happened to color and form in reproduction. The green in a color ad was not like grass; it was mint green, menthol green, a hue of such insinuating and saturated lushness that it belonged to an order other than nature. Color pages and Bendel's window displays gave Smith, fresh from the pinched dampness and grayness of England in the '50s, much the same sense...
...stopping construction altogether. The windowless building, sheathed in gold, anodized aluminum, boasts 75,000 sq. yds. of carpeting and contains 9,000 tons of computerized air conditioning and heating equipment; its energy costs are estimated at $1,752,000 a year. Its AstroTurf surface is known fondly as Mardi Grass...
...knew Nancy probably better than any of the others, having rowed with her all spring in Cambridge at the Eastern Development Camp, a private rowing club. They paused in the Eliot House-courtyard, where a few people are almost always sitting and talking on the steps or the grass or the patio. But Maggie was quiet, and she soon left to take a shower before breakfast...
...critics, he was pleased to receive questions about policy rather than about wiretaps at home and "destabilization" abroad. Kissinger was also encouraged to find many members of his audiences apparently puzzled and angered by his critics on Capitol Hill. The Secretary came away satisfied that there was still strong grass-roots support for himself and his policies west of the Potomac...
...M.F.A.'s new-and exceedingly fuzzy-plan calls for a government built on a pyramid of local worker and neighborhood commissions and popular assemblies, organized at grass-roots levels and culminating at some indistinct point in an undefined "popular assembly." Under this system, there would no longer be a need for contending political parties. At the same time, the secret ballot would be abolished, and the elected Constituent Assembly, which is supposed to represent the voters, would be made impotent. All of the so-called people's assemblies would be fostered and directed by the military, and would...