Word: grassed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...ever since his college years at Harvard a decade earlier. He had taken a course taught by Richard Evans Schultes, a pioneer ethnobotanist who had spent years in the Amazon rain forest. During the first lecture, Professor Schultes showed a slide of what appeared to be three Indians in grass skirts and bark-cloth masks dancing under the influence of some kind of potion. "The one on the left has a Harvard degree," the professor said, pointing out how far some ethnobotanists will go to pursue their research. That was when Plotkin, now 43, decided he had found his calling...
...would drive his black Cadillac convertible around the streets of his town, checking out what the citizens were doing across the abundant stage he had constructed for them, his ears attuned to local gossip, his eyes to lawn maintenance. (In the early years, householders who didn't mow their grass would find Levitt gardeners dispatched to do it and a bill for the job in their mailbox.) He was the consummate marketing guy, unmoved by books, paintings or music. His first wife once complained that she had dragged him to see Death of a Salesman but couldn...
...bought more companies than ITT's Geneen, who during the second half of the 1960s was called "the greatest businessman alive." ITT made telephone equipment, ran hotels, built homes, rented autos, sold insurance, made grass seed and rented billboards. He believed in big and swore that "if risk is a bucking bronco, a conglomerate is the best way to enjoy the ride...
...least it better. This unseasonable weather has upended the social order of the community. Unrepetenant first-years from California stride about in shorts. Tourists are wearing sunglasses. Any day now, the University will be spreading fresh grass seed in the Yard. Dartboard will continue to wait for the snow, but for the good of the University, it better come soon. THE SHOW MUST GO ON--Dara Horn; SUNNY DAYS--Alan E. Wirzbicki
...fable of the grinds vs. the goons, played out daily in suburban schoolyards, gets sophisticated tweaks from Lasseter, co-director Andrew Stanton and their colleagues. The movie teems with political infighting, with carnage and compromise, at the grass-roots level--Michael Collins meets Microcosmos. Indeed, for the first half hour or so, A Bug's Life is so dense with characters and illustrative detail that it nearly chokes on its own banquet. The filmmakers encourage you to wander through the glamorous terrain of their imaginations as if the picture were a product reel for 21st century cinema...