Word: grasse
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...American spectacle in the tradition of, say, the Indianapolis 500 or the Pasadena Tournament of Roses. In 1964 I was in New Orleans to do a piece on the Zulu Social Aid and Pleasure Club, a black burial society whose members traditionally paraded on Mardi Gras in blackface, wearing grass skirts and tossing coconuts to the crowd. A week before Mardi Gras, I watched cheerfully drunk white longshoremen boogie down the street for hours in women's clothing behind a black jazz band, in what they called a practice parade of their Carnival marching society -- as if any of that...
...1970s, Schlafly stunned the National Organization for Women (NOW) and a liberal congress by derailing the Equal Rights Amendment. Schlafly led Stop ERA, the grass-roots organization which helped convince state legislatures from Illinois to Florida to vote against the ERA, and persuaded others to rescind their support...
ERNIE Banks, Mr. Cub himself, the greatest power hitting shortstop of all time, made the best argument for night baseball at Wrigley. With the sun shining down on the green grass of Wrigley, Mr. Banks emerged from the dugout, gazed around the Friendly Confines and announced, "Let's play...
...well as offering lessons in map reading and bike maintenance. "I thought I was just going for a bike ride on back roads in New England," says Connecticut Insurance Consultant Karen Daly, 29. "They teach you how to jump logs, and we rode through a ski trail with grass up to your waist, wildflowers...
...date is in fact a splendid mainstream novel exploring a theme that links almost all good mysteries with the larger literary tradition: the burden of the past. Robert Barnard, a specialist in snide japery (Death of an Old Goat), turns deceptively gentle and affectionate in The Skeleton in the Grass (Scribner's; 199 pages; $15.95), which focuses on the subtleties of the relationship between the teenage daughter of a poor British clergyman and the aristocratic family she is sent to join, as something between servant and family member, during the fateful summer of 1936. Among the moneyed Hallams...