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...stickered under this system," says Randy Newman. "Even without it, a lot of my stuff has been kept off the radio." Fogerty recalls reading a newspaper column attacking one of his loveliest Creedence Clearwater Revival tunes, Lookin' Out My Back Door, because the writer thought a line about a lawn was a reference to smokable grass...
Although it has been rather tiring, sticky and unpleasant working on a lawn crew, or on an assembly line, or even in a warehouse, these brief but terrifying glimpses of the real world have also been educational. The first thing I learn each summer is that I hate to work, and I am absolutely incompetent when...
...smokestack. Despite his initial alarm, neither the Argo nor the Titanic was damaged in these encounters. But in the process, the submersible collected the only artifact so far brought up from the great liner: a smudge of paint scraped from the smokestack. Ballard also disclosed that after "mowing the lawn" with highly advanced technological gear (sweeping his sonar back and forth and checking its soundings with a magnetometer), the expedition had actually located the Titanic with a "25-year-old echo sounder. It could have been done in a fishing boat...
...cuts of meat in a butcher shop, the ruins of a Toltec shrine in Mexico, the flight of migrant starlings in his native Rome. Even while tending the grounds of his summer home, he feels the key to cosmic understanding within his reach: "He no longer thinks of the lawn: he thinks of the universe. He is trying to apply to the universe everything he has thought about the lawn...
...unconscionably pusillanimous approach, the Maryland State Police have started hiding in dump trucks and yellow lawn mowers alongside the highway to catch speeders, according to The Washington Post. The federal government has been putting the heat on Maryland to crack down after a study earlier this year found 76.2 percent of drivers were speeding. That compares to 56 percent nationwide and 44 percent in Massachusetts...