Word: grassed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...manipulate life-size puppets, in bold defiance of conventional stage literalism. Dance numbers brim with vibrant, African-carnival colors; the big action sequences, like a wildebeest stampede conveyed by wheels and masks, dazzle with their allusive originality. Some of the most striking images are the simplest. Women with grass headdresses stand in a row and sway to manifest wind in the African savanna. When the lionesses grieve over the death of their King, Mufasa, they pull ribbons of fabric from their eyes to suggest tears...
...going to take these fixes sitting down. "We need to start fighting like we're in a war," says HIA counsel Melody Harned. The Republican leadership, Harned wrote in a memo, asked the coalition to "write the definitive piece of paper trashing all these bills" and launch a grass-roots effort against them. But she warned that Republicans wanted a commitment (spell that money) from the coalition before they go out on a limb. "Get off your butts, get off your wallets," Harned quoted Senate majority leader Trent Lott as saying...
True wheat grass fanatics have been known to line up at juice bars at five every morning for their daily quota of four shots...
Then came a century of explosive growth in tourism worldwide, growth in Harvard's international fame and, most importantly, growth of the University's indoor plumbing system, which cleared the Yard grass for more genteel uses...
Yard paths have been paved and cordoned off, and the semicircle of pavement in front of the John Harvard statue was laid in the 1980s to protect Yard grass. Otherwise, Huppe says that no steps have been taken to decrease tourist traffic...