Word: lawns
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...sound tinny and surreal. The state was beset by 13 bank failures in 1985, more than in any year since the Depression, as well as more than 6,000 bankruptcies and farm-loan defaults. Still, Sooners were not prepared for the latest bad news: the oil well on the lawn of the state capitol in Oklahoma City has gone dry. Nicknamed Petunia when drilled in a flower bed in 1942, the well and the derrick atop it became a symbol of Oklahoma's boom times. Drawing from an oil pool directly beneath the capitol, Petunia pumped some 1.5 million...
Eddie (Sam Shephard) loves May (Kim Basinger), and May, despite her habit of kicking Eddie in the crotch, loves him in return. But it seems Eddie's been horsing around with a pistol-packing millionaire countess, while May's been seeing a dough-faced lawn maintenance man (Randy Quaid). The whole seedy business is overseen by an alcoholic desert rat (Harry Dean Stanton) who may or may not be May and Eddie's father, who may or may not have driven his wife to suicide, and who may or may not be guilty of bigamy. Ahem...
...billion in 1989, $36 billion in 1990 and finally zero in 1991. If Congress fails to meet these targets, the cuts that automatically kick in will be evenly divided between defense and domestic programs, and they are likely to be applied with about as much discrimination as a lawn mower shows high grass...
...Club members, by contrast, may walk into their backyard lawn any time they wish. The club only owns about one-third of the real estate, but in exchange for maintaining the garden, club members may use any part of the property while Harvard pays all the taxes...
Dorfman has signs for the liberal Cambridge Civic Association-endorsed candidates Kenneth E. Reeves '72, one of the first Harvard students to live in Mather House; and David E. Sullivan, a graduate of the Law School, on her lawn...