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...yesterday, Tommy Walker, who will produce the entire event, was one of few people standing in the stadium, surveying the grass which is greener than it ever is during the season. Walker gestures towards the empty field indicating where the main stage will sit and where the auxilary stagewill...
Backed by $50,000 from the Ford Foundation, ODN paired students with grass roots groups in the central Appalachian states of Kentucky, Tennessee, Virginia and West Virginia...
...cocaine trade. "Five years ago half the hotels and restaurants were filled year round with narco traffickers," sighs Jorge Lorgio Zambrana, 48, a hotel owner. "Now I guess they go to fancier places." Lorgio Zambrana is cynical about the operation. "We have a saying here: When you trim grass, it grows in more abundantly than before...
...doesn't adapt well to people like me who play a special game." The program also suffers from the deficiencies and idiosyncrasies of a socialist economy. Despite the importance of tennis, there is a surprising paucity of special courts: out of 3,734 nationwide, only three are grass. The country still cannot produce a high-quality racquet. Locally made tennis balls bounce eccentrically or not at all, and supplies have to be imported for major events...
Many people, trapped by various aspects of society--including the professor, the goatherd, and a ridiculous grass-smoking stereotype who wears a heavy locked chain around his neck, and says mysteriously, "I threw away the key"-- feel this strange attraction to Mona, and the viewer comes to feel it also. One doesn't quite identify with Mona, because she isn't really a personality, but one does identify with her driving force, the power that keeps her drifting, keeps her moving past opportunities to settle down, or jobs or love affairs...