Word: mulch
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Durrell's sense of place turned Alexandria into a popular municipality of literature, although his hothouse prose left the effect of unwholesome orchids raised in a mulch of shredded Oxford English Dictionaries. As a travel writer it would be difficult for Durrell to equal Bitter Lemons, his 1957 portrait of Cyprus. But then, Durrell lived for three years on Cyprus-owned a small old house, taught school, eventually worked for the British government as the island drifted into insurrection. Durrell went to Sicily as a tourist aboard the "Sicilian Carousel," a bus tour clockwise around the island...
...bring them into class as examples of accidental aesthetic form. Moreover, the stringent color exercises that Albers set would ultimately have a lot to do with the severe paintings Rauschenberg made between 1951 and '53: all-white and then all-black panels, the latter painted over a wrinkled mulch of newspaper, with no relationships of color. Twenty-five years ago, these pictures looked absurd; today they seem prescient. Art history has caught up with them, and the work of some of the most admired younger American painters?Robert Ryman's all-white paintings, Brice Marden's monochrome slabs of encaustic?...
Lobbyists labor under a presumption by the public that their craft generally thrives on the concealed mulch of bribes, kickbacks, favors and deals. Harvard, however, seems to have avoided such activities, and enjoyed almost a Boy Scout reputation among the Congressmen, lobbyists, and reporters contracted by The Crimson. Those asked whether Daly could be considered a lobbyist--of the clean sort, included under the 1946 umbrella definition as a person who accepts compensation which has the "purpose or intent to influence passage or defeat of any legislation by the Congress of the United States"--answered as follows...
...Greenburgh, N.Y. The town is picking up the trees at curbside and running them through chipping machines, used the rest of the year to clean up after tree prunings on the town's property. The tiny chips can then be used as a compact landfill or as a mulch to prevent the spread of weeds in gardens...
...horse is the only animal that pays for its grazing by reseeding the area over which it grazes. Seed passing through the mustang's alimentary canal will sprout more quickly than otherwise is the case. Not only that, the humus forms a mulch that protects the sprouting seed until roots are sent deep enough into the soil for the new plant to live through the hot, dry period that follows the spring season...