Word: lawns
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...foreign tourists to their refugee camp in front of city hall. There, the visitors found a second city of cardboard condos, clogged with the traffic of shopping carts through makeshift living rooms, outfitted with easy chairs and dresser drawers. The waterless fountain steamed with stale urine; a sun-scorched lawn sprouted cigarette butts...
...Beattie arrived hyper and antisocial at a state hospital where, eventually, a "spiritual experience" on the hospital lawn transformed her. "I lay back and the whole sky seemed to turn purple, and I became fully aware that there was a God. My consciousness was raised at that moment." This rebirth, as Beattie tells it, kept her alive. "She's a girl who put her whole heart into getting away from the drug life, and she would not be alive today if she had continued it," agrees Ruth Anderson, one of Beattie's counselors...
Stolid houses and spacious yards. The whir of hand-powered lawn mowers in the summer, the scrape of snow shovels in the winter. Romberg on the radio, dinner at the country club once a week, a trip to Paris once a lifetime. Dad wears vests, Mom wears funny hats, the maid nips at the cooking sherry (must speak to her about that). If their son makes eagle scout and one of his sisters pledges Kappa, does it really matter that the other daughter decamps for Greenwich Village and a scattershot involvement with "the arts" that her parents will never understand...
Probably not. For what is really important to Walter and India Bridge (Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward), citizens of Kansas City a half-century ago, is that the order of their rounds -- diurnal and annual -- is preserved. Drama in their lives is like crabgrass on their lawn: something to be rooted out the minute it appears and not dwelled upon thereafter...
What are round and orange, wear toothy grins and sit in the middle of front + lawns across the U.S.? No, not pumpkins. They're Stuff-A-Pumpkins, giant plastic leaf bags with a jack-o'-lantern design. When filled to the brim with lawn rakings, the 260-gal. monsters seem large enough to devour a small child. A creation of Connecticut-based Sun Hill Industries, the Stuff-A-Pumpkin (retail price: $3.98) is flying off the shelves of K mart, Wal-Mart and other bargain behemoths, suddenly making the childhood chore of leaf raking such a cool job that even...