Word: strewn
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...this week's cover story on Portugal's rapidly changing scene, Taber toured the countryside, where the Communist Party's grasp for power has stirred a violent reaction. In Aveiro in northern Portugal, he talked with Catholic foes of the Communists and visited a debris-strewn Communist headquarters that had been wrecked by angry townspeople. The local Communist boss at first refused to talk with the "fascist reactionary press, who only tell lies about us," but agreed to do so after he learned that Taber had already interviewed Communist Leader Alvaro Cunhal...
What to do? Other mayors might have applied for state or federal aid and filled out forms until their streets were as buried as those of Pompeii-or garbage-strewn New York (see page 16). But not Kit Irby, 58. Taking broom and shovel into her own hands, she has set out to clean up the streets of Cheney ("A Community with Pride") in time for the county fair on July 31. Numerous citizens have joined in, many of them teenagers, but none has matched the mayor's daily dedication...
...Christ Superstar) and Screenwriter William Harrison champion nonconformity and the glories of individuality against a faceless state as zealously as if they had just discovered these notions writ large on a fiery tablet. Only those for whom these ideas are also a revelation will appreciate the cautions that are strewn throughout the film like pennants waving in the cheap seats...
...best proof that the damage can be undone is his second farm, a 1,300-acre property that he bought in 1951, not long after coal miners had gouged and abandoned 800 acres of its coal-bearing land. Crisscrossed by enormous rock-strewn furrows, the land had no cover of vegetation, no wildlife-not even insects. With help from the U.S. Forest Service and Penn State University, Jones imported and planted carefully selected species of trees from all over the world, seeking out those that might grow in the acid, stony soil. He brought in evergreens-pines from Austria, Scotland...
Over the past ten years, Tom Wolfe has set himself up as the Bugs Bunny of American journalism-a squeaky, impudent dandy with a glib eye for the lumbering victim. Toward the end of the '60s, New York appeared to be strewn with his targets, from rich Black Panther-loving liberals to the editorial staff of The New Yorker. It was also dotted with the lucky recipients of his approval: mayflies like Baby Jane Holzer, cultish ephemerids like Marshall McLuhan and social grotesques like the collector-exhibitionists Robert and Ethel Scull, all festooned in yards of Wolfe...