Word: lawns
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...longer respects any border between painting and sculpture. "Why do some people think a painting is more important than a car, or vice versa?" he asks. "Some ask how I can spend my time making these crazy things-and those same people are out plugging away at their lawn and all wigged out because their trees are dying...
...knoll in the middle of the town stands the old Taliaferro County courthouse, an ugly red brick building rising above a frayed lawn. The town is the birthplace of Alexander Stephens, vice president of the Confederacy. A state park a hundred yards from the courthouse bears his name, and his statue stands on the lawn...
...marches puddled on the courthouse lawn. They sang, joining arms and swaying in union. Some white boys nudged one another and giggled. A few faces stand out in my mind: an enormous Negro youth in a bluejean jacket, a tiny Negro minister, a pudgy white girl in a baggy dress...
...roadster down Wilshire Boulevard at top speed, accompanied by seven chow dogs chosen to match her auburn hair. She refused to hire a chauffeur, she announced, because she couldn't find one who drove fast enough. She invited the U.S.C. football squad to scrimmage with her on her lawn-at midnight. She privately bathed in imported perfume, publicly pondered whether to succumb to the ardor of Director Victor Fleming or Gary Cooper, until indecision brought on a nervous breakdown. A jilted Yale football player who slashed his wrists was given a sanity hearing and released after he told...
...billion gallons; it will be a trillion gallons by the end of the century. The statistics are less a reflection of the country's burgeoning population than the result of modern industrial society's increasing and unquenchable thirst. For all the bathtubs, dishwashers, washing machines and lawn sprinklers of an affluent era, home use of water still represents less than 10% of the nation's consumption. Nearly half goes for irrigation, another 40% for industry. It takes 770 gallons of water to refine a barrel of petroleum, up to 65,000 gallons to turn...