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Puzzled by the sudden appearance of green flakes on the ground in the Yard? You will be relieved to know that it is nothing more than fibrous mulch...
...fibrous mulch, imbedded with grass seed, is part of the Yard's $6000 Spring make-over. Bernard K. Keohan, acting superintendent of Buildings and Grounds, (B&G), said yesterday...
...hydroseeding, the green fibrous mulch and seed are mixed with liquid fertilizer and sprayed over the surface of the lawn. Norman A. Gray, of Transit Seeding Inc., the contractors seeding the Yard, said yesterday...
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?...