Word: grassed
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What gives these whining students the chutzpah to claim the University as their own? They have been admitted here--God knows why--by the Admissions Committee, just like everyone else (I'm assuming). They think of themselves as grass-roots conservatives with a monopoly on truth, justice and the American way. In fact, they are the fringe: the freakish fascists who parade as Americans under the Stars and Stripes while eschewing all the freedoms for which this country exists. They are the intolerant. They are the fundamentalists. They are the malcontent minority who, guised in hypocritical morality, attack the virtuous...
...response to a question about the future of the civil rights movement, Seale said, "It is about grass-roots programs. But know the history, know oppressed people's history, and connect it to the future...
...later abstract works, the "Equivalents" (1929), provide a cushy counterpoint to such harder, clearly delineated concrete scenes. In a sense, Stieglitz taps into the age-old game of lying in the grass and picking out shapes in the sky, but with a deeper, vaguely solemn intent, as if to part the layers of nimbus and cumulus. His progression from works clearly grounded in the straightforward city to such abstraction in a sense reflects Stieglitz's attempts to broaden the "purpose" of photography...
...most TV coverage has been Shannon Lucid: plucky, hard-luck astronaut sentenced to six months of sponge baths and Russian food. I salute her spunk, but surely the publicity surrounding her represents a nadir of the shuttle program. Space-endurance records are the equivalent of watching grass grow. The endless hurling of men and women into near space has indeed made us the world's authority on zero-G nausea and other fascinations. But can we move on, please? Is monitoring bone decalcification the reason we ventured into the cosmos in the first place...
...tiny islands? And might it be between the ethnic Chinese of Hong Kong, Taiwan and China on one side and their ancient enemy Japan on the other? The ownership of the potentially oil-rich islands (called Diaoyu by the Chinese and Senkaku by the Japanese) has ignited a grass-roots movement in capitalist Hong Kong, communist China, and among pro-unification forces in Taiwan. This territoriality has been matched by rightist indignation in Japan, which has not fought a war since 1945 but which sent its coast guard to the islands last week to turn away two groups of Chinese...