Word: lawns
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...crisp November afternoon, Kent State University resembles any other thriving Midwestern campus. Hirsute young men and their long-haired girl friends, identically dressed in blue jeans and peacoats, stroll hand in hand across a snow-covered reach of lawn. Their path is interrupted by bulldozed mud trails, wire fences and spools of cable, the debris of new campus construction...
...decision was immediately hailed by the American Civil Liberties Union as "an occasion in constitutional history," and telegrams of congratulation from other women poured in on Mrs. Reed, who was soon contending with a front lawn full of reporters. "We never dreamed it would go this far," she said of the case's modest origins. "I just cared about the principle of the thing. The courts don't give women the right to be heard. I hope more women will do what I did. Instead of complaining about the way things...
Richard Brautigan's latest work has just drifted in from out West and is now crashing at neighborhood bookstores. Revenge of the Lawn is a collection of 62 stories written between 1962 and 1970 that fit without the slightest crowding into a 174 page book. The pieces range in length from a few pages to several lines, tiny Brautiganisms that haven't made it into his poetry collections only because the words don't rhyme. Brautigan bills them as fiction but their accent gives them away as autobiographical trivia...
Tormented Faces. Richard Nixon gave Mrs. Gandhi a gracious welcome on the South Lawn of the White House. It was a glorious autumn day in Washington, with the flags snapping in the wind and monuments gleaming in the sunshine. Thirteen silver trumpets sounded a fanfare from the White House portico. Then Mrs. Gandhi, regal in a brown sari and cashmere cape, reviewed the troops with the President...
...point-one can hardly say hero-of this phantasmagoria is a movie director named Norman T. Kingsley (played by Mailer), who is also a candidate for the presidency of the U.S. While a shadow cabinet of kingmakers sits in his house discussing his future, Kingsley is out on the lawn auditioning young actresses for a new movie. Parts of that film-conceived of as a kind of satire on Belle de Jour in which men run a brothel catering to perverse women customers-becomes a movie within Maidstone. It is, indeed, often impossible to discern which of the two films...