Word: grassed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...young man growing up on a vast Montana ranch early in this century, Tristan is unduly influenced by One Stab (Gordon Tootoosis), the Native American who narrates the tale in movie Indianspeak--stilted language with many references to nature (``It was in the moon of the red grass,'' he says solemnly when he wants to date something). Tristan takes to cutting out the hearts of fallen prey to free their spirit and develops a lifelong, mutually unhealthy relationship with a grizzly bear. He never fully escapes the call of the primitive, but at a certain point he does begin carrying...
...wish I were green rain in a grass field...
...heart is sent back after one such mission stained with red clay and cracked from the harsh sun. In Edmunds' voice of lament, he wishes he were green. He desires a different more alive form, to be "green rain on grass. "It may not be easy to being green, but it's better than being red in Edmunds's desert...
Geary reports that plans to strengthen the dikes for just such an emergency have been gathering dust for 20 years. Grass-roots environmentalists protested that heightening the dikes would destroy the natural landscape, and politicians refused to pay for costlier alternatives...
...going to need a grass-roots level campaign during the next 12 or 13 months, if we are going to be a viable party," says State Rep. Alvin E. Thompson (D-Cambridge). "We're going to have to work more on the grass-roots level, if we are going to get back what we lost...