Word: tree
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Even Saigon, stripped of its barbed wire and military posts, might be seen for what it was: a charming, French-style city of tree-lined boulevards...
...equally demanding. "I bought the Doughboy pool for David and the kids, and now no one wants to take the responsibility for cleaning it," one father remarks mournfully as he scoops debris from the large plastic tank. Neatness counts. A youth, balancing in the boughs of a scrawny tree, is picking dead leaves. "My dad thinks it's a good idea to take all the leaves off the trees and rake up the yard. I think he's crazy...
...neon tube, etching its innumerable messages across the skyline, is at least as familiar a sight to urban Americans as a tree or a dog. But not to a woman named Chryssa Mavromichaeli, when she arrived in the U.S. from Athens, age 21, in 1954. "I saw Times Square with its lights and letters, and it made me realize that they were as beautiful and as difficult to make as any Japanese calligraphy," she later recalled...
...want any more than what Ah have." Which is just as well. After five hours of rough hold 'em, Slim was busted by Jack "Tree Tops" Strauss, another tall Texan, in a $9,000 pot. At week's end, Strauss and five other survivors were battling for Slim's title-and the total bank...
...shape of swastikas, were building on the most popular traditions of 19th century German genre painting-that volkisch sentiment that was Germany's equivalent to America's image of frontier virtue. One sequence says it all: a choir singing carols beneath a light-baubled Christmas tree in a village square. The camera tilts up, slowly and lovingly, to reveal a huge illuminated swastika on top of the tree, dispensing its generous light over the festival. Even today, one cannot laugh at this breathtaking kitsch. It is chilling; no level of folk culture could be impervious to the message...