Word: grasse
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...March of 1983 Christo said he hopes to surround ten islands in Florida's Biscayne Bay with five and a half million square feet of pink fabric, an exploration of the interface between land and water. Environmentalists initially questioned the project because of possible damage to sea-grass, but an impact study disproved their concerns, he said...
...where else, South Florida, America's favorite winter playground. Hmmm, let's see now. Here is a picture of palm trees swaying gently under a cottony blue sky while a family frolics in the foamy surf. Here is a snowy white heron flitting along a river of sea grass in the Everglades, the mangrove and palmetto serene as a Sunday morning. There is a creamy stucco Palm Beach mansion, its red tile roof glinting fiercely in the sun and bougainvillea rioting, colorfully in the yard. And, of course, a couple of sunburned senior citizens of Miami Beach...
...perhaps-the animal that allowed a hunter to hide beneath its belly until he could get close to his quarry. But it would be more than Mr. Stockman intended to suggest that the tax bill was an accomplice to those seeking to devour the people. A snake in the grass, then? No, because a snake would be immediately recognizable as an enemy. Nor could the tax package be described as a fox in a henhouse, a dog in the manger, a bull in a china shop, or a bomb in a bull (though it has been called abominable). A wolf...
...exclaims, call him "Charley"), who reports in his book, The Greening of America (currently churning off the Random House presses at a rate of 15,000 a week), that the machinery of Corporate America is destroying itself and that we should all await with him the inevitable emergence--like grass through the cracks in the sidewalk--of a new Consciousness of love, blue jeans and rock music, a Consciousness III. Says the Times: "Youth culture has gotten its very own Norman Vincent Peale." They were not referring to William Sloan Coffin, Yale's famous Radical Chaplain...
...Erich Segal and good ol' Charley Reich tossing flowers at each other in the Pierson College dining hall as Kingman Brewster broadcasts the Fugs out of his office window. Think of jean-and-workshirt-bedecked Yalies pouring out of Skull and Bones to spend their dividend checks on grass and anti-war ads in the New York Times. And win this one for Consciousness II.CrimsonNevin I. ShalltHENRY A. KISSINGER and Yale President BART GIAMATTI joke with Kissinger's son, DAVID, a junior at Yale, at a football game. Henry Kissinger went to Harvard...