Word: overgrown
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Mirrors was turned into an infirmary by the invaders; the French avenged the German insult in 1919, when the Allied leaders gathered in the same hall to sign the treaty ending World War I. But by then the palace had been gutted, and the gardens were shabby and overgrown. Visiting the grounds in 1923, John D. Rockefeller Jr. was appalled at the neglect and donated $100,000 for restoration, which included a new roof for the Hall of Mirrors...
...eccentrics and obsessives. Allie pays $400 for an abandoned jungle settlement called Jeronimo. "It's about as unimportant as a place can possibly be," he says happily. "You talk about starting from scratch. Well, Jeronimo is scratch." Within weeks, Allie's manic energy transforms a rank, overgrown clearing into a neat, well-ordered community. As he keeps improving his creation he boasts, "The Iron Age comes ... A month ago, it was the Stone Age ... digging vegetables with wooden shovels and clobbering rats with flint axes. We're moving right along...
...world that remains is dark, damp, and overgrown, peopled with primitive hunter-gatherers and horrible mutants. The language, too, has undergone a mutation: in Hoban's version of English reinvented from scratch, spelling, sentence-structure, and vocabulary have all taken on a childlike spontaniety and simplicity...
...funk and the locker room, the Kamali sweat look has captured the whimsical and practical sides of the American woman's fancy. "Her clothes have a little wit and a little dare," explains Vogue Editor Grace Mirabella.. But they have their drawbacks too. The exaggerated silhouette and overgrown pants and tops are not for the timid. Moreover, while sweat material is not delicate, it must get special care so it will not shrink or droop...
...Overgrown, eroded, but still discernible, the canals were built with extraordinary ingenuity and industriousness. (Habitual sloth was a capital crime among the Incas.) The winding route from the heights down into the lower slopes was designed to divert enough water to wet the terraced plots without overflowing or bursting through the stonework. Maintenance teams had to patrol the waterways year-round to keep them clear of silt and rubble. In the 16th century the Spanish came, dreaming of El Dorado, and forced farmers to harvest gold instead of maize. Irrigation systems like the one in Patallacta were let go. Soldiers...