Word: meadow
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...conflicts of cultural politics may come and go, but the Moiseyev troupe is still stepping smartly through the pastoral frolic of Polyanka (a small meadow), the gentle gibes of the Old City Quadrille and the patriotic harum- scarum of Partisans, signature pieces all. Even the newer works on the program -- the dazzling, how-do-they-do-that At the Skating Rink and the wackily erotic Night on Bald Mountain -- show the same disciplined panache familiar to Americans from earlier visits...
...They were angrily voted down. A man named Stephen Kenney was hauled before the village court in the Buffalo suburb of Kenmore and ordered to cut the growth in his front yard or be fined. He explained that the six-foot-high stand of weeds was in fact a meadow of wild flowers, "a natural yard, growing the way God intended." Wrong, said the court. The yard was a hazard to drivers and children, and too hospitable to insects and rodents. Ultimately, Kenney gave up and moved to Connecticut...
...election marred by controversy, Meadow Party moderate Kurt Muenchow defeated leftist Student Rights Party candidate Jen Faigel for MSA President. During the campaign, however, the Meadow Party posted flyers revealing that the vice presidential candidate on the Student Rights ticket had signed a form in support of a Marxist study group...
...Meadow allegation is probably accurate, sources say. "He [the Student Rights VP candidate] is clearly a Marxist," said Michigan Daily News Editor Robert A. Earle...
Further campaign controversy involved the use of Bloom County character Opus on publicity flyers by the Michigan Meadow Party. The director of the MSA election accused the Meadow Party of violating copyright laws, Earle said...