Word: leafed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Fall of Freddie the Leaf, Buscaglia...
...already running at Broadway's Brooks Atkinson Theater, three out of four new British entries are by women, possibly because Britain's feminist consciousness is just now peaking. Top Girls displays some postfeminist tristesse; only Steaming seems earnest in its feminist polemics, ironically garnished with pre-fig leaf nudity...
...similar tendency towards the personal trademark mars Rauch's enigmatic final scene, as one mute autumn leaf flutters slowly out of the overhead grill. But interestingly, a Mercutio and Benvolio, and their depiction as Romeo's childhood pals--avoids this tendency altogether. The women succeed, despite occasional awkwardness, precisely because their gender attracts no notice and the audience soon responds in kind...
...Siberia, USSR, Lake Baikal, one fifth of the world's fresh water. Bread and cheese, Woods, wooden houses; ruddy hardware men, kerchiefed, buxom women. Stand at window and remember India. Read prize-winning Chinese short stories, i.e., train ticket-seller turns over new leaf and saves future sister-in-law's life by having memorized connecting bus schedules. Francine shows off Nanjing University bug life preserved in naphthalene and film boxes...
Among the bright spots in the economy in the past few years have been the production of natural gas and increases in the crop of coca leaves, which after treatment are turned into cocaine. In 1981, when a state monopoly was established in coca-leaf trading, the value of the drug traffic was estimated at $1.6 billion a year. The military is still closely involved, arranging transportation for the valuable shipments and deals to smuggle the drug into its biggest market, the U.S. In New York City cocaine sells...