Word: lawns
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...pity the robin that tries to pluck a worm from a plastic "lawn" or build a nest in a synthetic "juniper." I pity any living thing that tries to live in the James Cummings' artificial "garden" [Aug. 7]. But most of all, I pity the people who are so insensitive as to mock and defile nature by conjuring up a plastic landscape in one of the most beautiful areas of the world-the Pacific Northwest...
...Cummings aware of the fact that their $3,500 plastic lawn cannot return oxygen to the atmosphere...
...lawn. Lilacs festered in the garden...
...evidence that she lives a great deal in her imagination. She goes to a drive-in to think. Her first purchase when the six-figure movie and paperback money began coming in was a commodious secondhand station wagon: "For years I'd watched drive-in movies from a lawn chair while the girls sat in the Volkswagen. It was either that or scrunch up in back like Charles Laughton on top of Notre Dame." Even her speech shows certain dramatic cadences. Describing her research in children's books, she intones: "There did Marilyn Durham learn what dynamite looks...
...been richly rewarded. Last year he was the highest-paid executive in Hawaii, collecting $174,000. Though he can afford better, he lives in a less than fashionable subdivision on the rainy windward side of Oahu, and has given up golf in favor of gardening and mowing his lawn with a small tractor. Explains Walker: "I crave solitude at times, and golf is a competition amongst men. I get enough of that in eight hours of work every day." But Walker may one day have to give up his enviably relaxed life-style on Hawaii...