Word: lawns
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...bombing." And one of the last times any of Nichols' neighbors in the small farming town of Herington, Kansas, saw him, the dark-haired 40-year-old was tending to the small front yard outside the faded blue house with the white shutters. "He was spreading fertilizer on the lawn with his bare hands," says the person who lives directly across the tree-lined street. "I thought it was peculiar...
Most of the other houses along the block display little blue signs on the front lawn, compliments of the Harvard Historical Commission, which ensure that nobody will change the color or appearance of the homes...
...most of the year, midtown Manhattan adheres to the fin-de-siecle urban ritual of a working lunch. But during Fashion Week, held in Bryant Park every spring and fall, the bow-tied and sensibly heeled easily forgo risotto on an expense account for Quarter Pounders on a crowded lawn. Dazzled by the chic, they perch themselves near the heavily guarded white tents where designers unveil their seasonal collections. The businessmen, of course, do not come because they are interested in Richard Tyler's position this year on velvet. They want to catch a glimpse of the shows' real centerpieces...
...also raises a few questions: the cacti suggest a Western desert, the Confederate flag suggests the South, and the ragged lawn chairs evoke a tornado-belt trailer park. The characters, perhaps, would be most at home in California, where the exploitative photographer and the body-obsessed model are recognized stereotypes. This melange of bad taste is not actively distracting, but picking the bad taste of a single region could have made the characters more clear...
...were entertained by a flying nun, a buxom genie and a suburban witch who twitched her nose. Yet of all the ridiculous TV shows of the era, two stand out for their enduring, unfathomable allure: The Brady Bunch, the sitcom about an adage-spewing stepfamily cavorting on an Astroturf lawn, and Gilligan's Island, the tale of seven mismatched castaways on an island that seemed oddly close to Hollywood. Both shows had a goofy otherworldliness painfully out of step with their tumultuous times. Both spawned fanatical cult followings and countless spin-offs. Both, amazingly, were created by the same...