Word: grass
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...plains of western Wyoming are today a scarred moonscape of gray hills, but 50 million years ago they were mostly swampland, lush with exotic life. Primitive lemurs swung through palm trees, while the first horse, Eohippus, a short-legged creature about the size of a fox terrier, nibbled on grass beside the squirrelish Paramys...
...cinematography by Nestor Almendros is nothing short of spectacular, from the shining fields of grass to the dry, patched clapboard houses. And the scene of Moses and Edna planting cotton seed is as powerful as a Millet painting...
Although slightly disadvantaged by the playing surface--that great innovation called Astroturf which changes a soccer game into a gigantic pinball machine by creating more high bounces than on a grass surface--as well as an eat-to dinner referee, the Crimson was able to adjust to the increased speed the unfamiliar turf brought to the game...
...Horizon, listening to classical music, and boasts that he has now shaken every hand in Delaware. Carper professes not to mind that Du Pont plans to spend $300,000 more than he, insisting, "I'm used to being outspent. I overcome it by an intense, person-to-person grass-roots campaign." Carper, who supported Gold water in 1964, is a fiscal conservative who is bullish on defense. On most issues, the two candidates appear to agree. Carper is gambling that his experience and folksy manner will play well against Du Pont's gilded edges...
...hand clutched the decapitated body of a Barbie-like doll. In the cellophane-Easter-grass-filled lunchbox lay the head of the doll. Around the base, toy soldiers battled a never-ending...