Word: composting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...tomatoes-on a windowsill in the sun. You can't ripen them off the vine.' " Simon should know. He made his first million putting tomatoes in Hunt's tomato sauce. But Fonda's thumb isn't green just from painting: "I make my own compost and raise tomatoes in my organic garden back of my house...
They have wilted into a stinking pile of compost nurtured by irresponsibility, disrespect, laziness, greed and moral decay, exemplified by TIME's feature story on Last Tango...
...CORPSE of the McGovern campaign, bloodbrowned and biodegrading, has been twice mashed into compost in the past week by the country's leading Democrat. With the subtlety of a retreating army, Senator Kennedy has abandoned hard-fought liberal positions in a drive to improve his position...
...Nothing so useless as yesterday's newspaper? The Minneapolis Star is running full-page house ads declaring that "the Star will work on your yard." Lay the paper flat and anchor it, the ad advises, for erosion control. Or use it as a compost-pit liner: "It is good to have woody material like newsprint decomposing in your soil." Moreover, says the Star, "newsprint ink is like dessert. The ink contains valuable trace minerals in the seaweed-derived binder...
...fills in gaps in the narrative. It may legitimately provide a background, and sometimes we have to fall back on it when the imagination falters. Perhaps a novelist has a greater ability to forget than other men--he has to forget or become sterile. What he forgets is the compost of the imagination...