Word: grasse
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Born in North Dakota in 1933, Rosenquist backed into being a painter through grass-roots advertising: he started painting Phillips 66 signs for a Minnesota paint contractor and gradually moved up to supporting himself as a billboard artist in New York City in the 1950s. Turning out these mammoth images, high above the city streets, had the most obvious connection to his later art: the problem of how you make something that looks perfectly realistic a quarter- mile away when you are close up against it and cannot see it as a whole. The huge fragmentary paintings...
...yesterday, Tommy Walker, who will produce the entire event, was one of few people standing in the stadium, surveying the grass which is greener than it ever is during the season. Walker gestures towards the empty field indicating where the main stage will sit and where the auxilary stagewill...
Backed by $50,000 from the Ford Foundation, ODN paired students with grass roots groups in the central Appalachian states of Kentucky, Tennessee, Virginia and West Virginia...
...cocaine trade. "Five years ago half the hotels and restaurants were filled year round with narco traffickers," sighs Jorge Lorgio Zambrana, 48, a hotel owner. "Now I guess they go to fancier places." Lorgio Zambrana is cynical about the operation. "We have a saying here: When you trim grass, it grows in more abundantly than before...
...doesn't adapt well to people like me who play a special game." The program also suffers from the deficiencies and idiosyncrasies of a socialist economy. Despite the importance of tennis, there is a surprising paucity of special courts: out of 3,734 nationwide, only three are grass. The country still cannot produce a high-quality racquet. Locally made tennis balls bounce eccentrically or not at all, and supplies have to be imported for major events...