Word: lincoln
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...conference will be held from 9:30 a.m. to 1 p.m., Saturday at Lincoln Park Community School in Somerville...
...earth farming. Ralph Prince, an agricultural engineer at the University of Connecticut's Storrs campus, has run laboratory experiments that indicate that an acre producing only ten tons of lettuce by conventional farming can grow more than 700 tons by hydroponic methods. Chicago's Brookfield and Lincoln Park zoos raise much of their mammal fodder hydroponically and claim that their greens are particularly nutritious...
Hydroponically grown vegetables taste about the same as those grown in soil. But most of them are bigger; water-borne tomatoes, for instance, may be 20% larger than earth-borne ones. The vegetables also mature much faster. The Lincoln Park Zoo maintains continuous production of fresh barley grass for the animals by "planting" two 50-lb. bags or so of seed every day; each new crop of grass is ready for harvesting in a week, compared with the six to eight weeks required for soil-grown barley...
...opening scene of striking ingenuity does not hint at the wrong-headedness to come. At the edge of the stage sit Kent and Gloucester, chatting and drinking champagne. Derek McLane's austere set leaves no place for warmth. Black gauze hangs menacingly. The Lincoln rests like a hearse--Lear's castle--upstage center. Its grille grins, its headlights stare. Seven stars, like seven gods, watch from the rafters. Lear emerges from the automobile, masked in sunglasses, master of his court, eager to dispatch the richest third of his Kingdom to his youngest daughter Cordelia. But Cordelia refuses to flatter...
...ride is occasionally brilliant. Cast perfectly as Edmund, Brain McCue makes a consummate villian, treacherous and slimy. He plots with devilish wit, alternately the angry young bastard and the charming rogue, whose schemes overwhelm him. McCue is hilarious when he sulks in the front seat of the Lincoln or when he fakes a wound by splattering ketchup...