Word: lawn
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...sunny morning last week, Ronald Reagan strode jauntily onto the White House lawn. Surrounded by politicians looking to share credit and camera angles, the President picked up the first of two dozen pens -- one for each letter of his name so as to maximize the number of souvenirs -- and signed the Tax Reform Act of 1986. But when those around him saw his handiwork, there was a burst of laughter. "I was in such a hurry," Reagan confessed, "I wrote my last name first." The President remedied the slip by squeezing in a cramped Ronald in front of Reagan...
Croquet at the competitive level is very different from its backyard counterpart, the version everybody plays on their grandmother's lawn on the Fourth of July. Yearsley compares it to a "big version of billiards," while Anderson feels it is more "a combination of fishing and equestrian events...
...character in Animal House, and remembers writing Cujo under the influence of malt and hops. Then two years ago, physicians picked up symptoms of heart arrhythmia, and these days King tends to watch his solids and liquids and waistline. But he still pays very little attention to externals. Two lawn chairs on the driveway is about as much luxury as he likes to display to the neighbors. "I guard against success," he says, "because you start to expect things, preferential treatment at hotels or concerts. I don't want that. I'm not any better than anyone else...
...site of a 20-foot hole and two 40-foot mountains where most of the quad lawn used to be is equally disconcerting. But the biggest inconvenience of renovations won't be realized until first snowfall...
...Lynch gives us a picket fence punctuated by fat red roses. We see random shots of Lumberton, the film's seemingly idyllic smalltown locale. Big-hearted firemen wave in slow-motion, houses and trees and citizens stand their ground. Then a middle-aged man has a seizure watering his lawn. The hose spurts above him with sexual abandon, and a mongrel dog lunges on the misdirected spray. Lynch follows this with a close-up of insects teeming in the rich grass. He sticks your nose down into the nest, and the theater fills with brittle bug noises...