Word: grassed
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Actually, Kingman uses his imagination to people his real scenes with creatures never seen on land or sea, some grass-high and others building-high. "A big man," says Kingman, who is 5 ft. 1 in., "perhaps doesn't notice so much difference between large and small. I like to paint people at different levels, and sometimes with wheels under them so they can move about more quickly." He also uses giant faces, single eyes, fantastic animals, and meaningless signs to fill odd corners of his designs with elusive life. This week's show offered, amidst a host...
...Sounds in the Night, done in 1943, was an imaginative effort to give shapes to bodiless little noises, to picture 'the creatures you thought might make the sounds you could not identify." The two pictures together seemed to prove what Graves himself denies: that both whispers in the grass and the roaring of machinery can be beautiful, in totally different ways. Vachel Lindsay, an earlier American romantic, once put the point in verse...
...Grass Roots Sentiment. In Tampa, Fla., Francisco Alvarez was ordered by a court to get rid of his cow as a public nuisance, even though he produced three character witnesses who offered to testify to the cow's good behavior...
...poor organization lost it. On Nov. 1, 4,000,000 acres planted to grain had not been harvested. The Kazakhstanis say that some of the grain was flattened by the first snow, and they harvested it afterward. But what sort of harvesting is that? You know how geese pluck grass, especially goslings. A gosling grabs a blade of grass, yanks it out and falls on his backside. That," said Khrushchev amid laughter and applause, "is about how they harvested the grain left under the snow in Kazakhstan...
...marbled porterhouse at 79?-and impatiently demanded more when supplies temporarily ran short. Out on the broad Midwest ranges, cattlemen were not so happy. Beef prices have been sliding for months, are expected to stay low most of this year. On ten major Midwestern markets from Denver to Chicago, grass-fed steers that brought 28½? per Ib. in May sold for only 23? in December. In Kansas City, choice cattle slipped from 31? per Ib. in midsummer to 27¾? last week. Hogs and lambs have also dropped more than seasonally...