Word: grasse
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Gunter Grass filled his first novel, The Tin Drum (1959), with symbols that are not symbols, with allegories that are not allegories, with messages that are not messages. Volker Scholondorff has turned this sprawling, self-conscious novel of post-war Germany into a beautiful and disturbing film that recreates Danzig of the '30s and '40s without adequately illuminating Grass' novel. His film is both a magnificent success--well-acted, unblinkingly photographed, crisply edited--and a huge failure, an adaptation that dismally dissipates the epic power of the novel...
...tangible record of his path on the landscape. He would gather together local materials such as stones, branches and brush, arranging them in circles or lines often reflecting the contour of the terrain. In "England" Long picked flowers out of a field, leaving a green X of plain grass. Long's groupings are all of a temporary nature--patterns in sand that wash away with the tide, clumps of desert grass that will be scattered by the wind. Long's two photographs of man-made structures are significant: Windmill Hill, home of "the first inhabitants of England to make permanent...
...items that are tools of the drug trade have perfectly legal uses. Because McDonald's coffee stirrers, for example, can double as cocaine spoons, the restaurant chain recently withdrew them from use. Garden shops, too, could run afoul of such laws: Who can be sure what sort of grass the customer plans to water with his new hose...
...military commander of the area around Tyre, Major Azmi Zughayar, strode to the top of a sand dune in southern Lebanon. There, above the bamboo and sea grass, he pointed with his walking stick across a sliver of eastern Mediterranean to the shore line of Israel beyond. "That is my country," he told a visitor. "How can I forget? How can any of us forget...
Northeastern did rap out a homer, two triples and a double, but the latter three require an explanation. Unaccustomed to playing on Parsons Field's bizarre half-grass, half-astroturf outfield, Crimson gardeners Chalie Santos-Buch and Paul Scheper misjudged high-bouncing base hits and the Huskies picked up two of their four runs as a result...