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Roll up the windows, and you can see oil derricks working on the White House lawn. But click on the center of the desk and you get the most worrisome response from the Governor: "Oh, here are the nukular codes." Just don't answer the ringing phone...
...network." In other words, if you're a yapper, what's the difference between touting your tailback and your candidate's tax policies? And if you're a candidate looking to talk to that yapper, just look for the Ohio State Buckeyes or Florida Gators sign on the lawn - you might just score...
...takes it further, however, by treating the houses as physical, aesthetic constructions, causing their souls to vanish along with their contents. In real life, the beauty of houses in aggregate comes from the whole patchwork of messy memory, rooted in warm doughy snacks, wrestling on a sunny lawn, and the hole left when the kids leave for college. Whiteread purposely absents these things, dislocating the dollhouses and drawing together their lines and levels. But placed in the museum, they evoke no nostalgia, only a minor, damp melancholy in a darkened room.—Staff writer Elsa...
...approval ratings are so low that you can almost picture the First Dog, Barney, barely able to muster a single wag of his pointy black tail when the Commander-in-Chief strides into the White House living room. So it seemed auspicious that rolling up to the South Lawn on Monday was the man who might just be President Bush's Last Best Friend on Earth. Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi arrived in Washington just in time for Columbus Day, and just in time to say what almost no other political figure would venture to say out loud right...
...forty years I have been recycling, making compost from my lawn clippings and household refuse. I have planted some 300 trees. I've replaced all my light bulbs with energy-saving bulbs. I conserve water and electricity by boiling the kettle only three times a day, keeping the hot water in a vacuum flask. I turn the hot-water heater on only to heat water for a shower. In doing all this, I tell myself I am helping to solve the world's environmental problems. But this will never be enough so long as overpopulation continues. While I say bravo...