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...years the American lawn--which gardening writer Michael Pollan has described as "nature under totalitarian rule"--has sprouted in inhospitable climates from coast to coast, seeded, fertilized, doused with water and pesticides, and mowed to within an inch of its life. But in Las Vegas and other communities, the ground is quite literally, if slowly, shifting. Whether because of water restrictions, an increased concern about pesticides or simply a backlash against the unending labor required to keep lawns pruned to perfection, more homeowners are questioning whether the grass's being greener is necessarily a good thing...
...sales figures testify to the genius of marketing moguls, since they have persuaded people to ignore nature's essential nature. Michael Pollan, a writer and gardener of the old school, argues rightly that nature abhors a garden: left to its own devices, your yard will revert to forest or swamp or meadow in a matter of years, if not months. But at the same time, if you are willing to do the work...
There is nothing new about such conceits, of course. "Snobbery and gardening have gone hand in hand for hundreds of years," argues Pollan. There have always been those who plant old roses with good bloodlines, he explains, and those who go for high-tech hybrid teas with names like Chrysler Imperial-"a rose named after a car, for God's sake." What's different today, he observes, is that gardening has become such a fad. "You can pour vast sums of money into an acre of land and acquire the patina of sophisticated gardening very quickly." Horticultural social climbers speedily...
...year-old woman was arrested earlier this year after allegedly sending more than 5,000 threatening letters to actor Michael J. Fox. The letters said that Fox and his new wife, actress Tracy Pollan, would die if he did not divorce her. They were signed "Your...
While Fox proves exceptional in his aspiring-writer persona, the other performances vary. Vacuous Phoebe Cates proves perfectly adequate to play vacuous Amanda, but Kiefer Sutherland is too awful to be believable as the awful Allagash. In the midst of all these city slickers. Tracy Pollan is a preppie breath of fresh air as a Princeton graduate student with whom Jamie spends a rare drug-free evening. Otherwise, it will come as no surprise that Oscar winning actress Dianne Wiest is competent as Jamie's beloved, bedridden mother, and Swoosie Kurtz is decent as what appears to be the only...