Word: grasse
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...this new freedom protested loudly that the President's plan was hastily conceived, harshly implemented and downright unworkable. The chorus of protests rose at a Detroit conference of the National League of Cities, an assembly of 2,500 local officials, many from the medium-sized communities where grass-roots support for Reagan policies is supposed to run high...
Bogart Jackson saw the Husband kneeling in the grass, motionless in deference to the golfers on the tee. He had always been polite. Bogart Jackson took aim, and brought his club back slowly, his eye on the ball...
...choose one designated leader before the next election, a choice that could cause a problem. Within the Social Democrats' inner circle, one faction wants the selection to be made on a one member-one vote basis, a procedure that would favor Williams, whose support is strong among the grass roots. Others want the choice to be decided by the party's M.P.s, who would probably favor Jenkins...
...most striking images--images that draw power not so much from their unexpectedness as from the fear and loathing they convey. The LSD-scarred businessman in "Thirty Spot, Fifteen Back on Either Side" stands helpless in the authoritative presence of a "jade-green reporter like a blade of metal grass thrust upright between the harsh lines of the grip's shouting..a hornet prowling the air." As she enters she checks a mirror, "parting her lips roughly with two blood-colored fingernails and revealing her teeth...
...banged out his first compositions at the piano, with the sustaining pedal down and the dynamic level up. Years later, an American sophisticate in Paris, he collaborated on an opera with Gertrude Stein, Four Saints in Three Acts, fashioning deceptively simple, homey music out of "Pigeons on the grass alas." His 1937 score for Filling Station, with its truck drivers, state troopers and gun-toting gangsters, became the first successful all-American ballet. Although serious composers generally have shunned film scores as hack work, he produced seven of them, and in 1949 collected a Pulitzer Prize for one, Louisiana Story...