Word: grassed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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There is a vacant lot at the corner of Quincy St and Blue Hill Avenue in Roxbury, next door to a storefront bearing the name "Gang Peace." The ground is mostly dirt interrupted by patches of grass, but the place is pretty clean. It wasn't always that...
Tsongas described his vision of America byciting an incident from his Peace Corps experiencein 1962. He said that while traveling in Ethiopia,he entered the small grass house of a nativecitizen. Inside the house, Tsongas saw twopictures on the wall: one of Ethiopian EmperorHaile Selassie, the other of President John F.Kennedy...
...sees it, politicians, aided and abetted by party structures, special-interest contributors and the "co-conspiratorial" media, are stuck in a vicious circle of fund raising and self-perpetuation. The only way to break the cycle and "take back America," Brown argues, is from below, with a "grass-roots insurgency." Accordingly, he has pledged to accept contributions of no more than $100. Until last week that appeal had netted him a shoestring $500,000 from 20,000 donors. "There is a constituency," he insists buoyantly. "If I had enough time, there are several million people who would contribute...
...bone-shaking 15-mile drive to the base of the mountain. From there we headed out on foot across a small dam and then walked along an irrigation canal past rice paddies. Our leisurely stroll ended abruptly when the path veered off through 12-ft.-high, aptly named saw grass. But the discomfort of being hacked at by razor-sharp weeds became fond memories when the trail suddenly zoomed up the mountain at a 70 degrees incline. For almost a mile straight up, there was less a path than a series of tenuous toeholds dug into sticky red clay. Several...
Seldom has such a complicated knot of racial politics and hagiographic pride been expressed with such economy. Director Spike Lee's baseball hat emblazoned with a silver X -- created to promote his forthcoming film on Malcolm X -- is grass-roots iconography of a high order. Two years ago, the ubiquitous- superhero-logo-of-choice was that of a white playboy-vigilante who dresses like a bat; now it is a real-life black pimp turned philosopher...