It's all part of the Mobius-strip nature of Oscar promotion, at a time when nominees are similarly crisscrossing the talk-show circuit at a breakneck pace.
Yet, for many Americans, perhaps most of us, thinking about the future conjures up images of 'Blade Runner,' 'Mad Max' or Cormac McCarthy's 'The Road': a post-apocalyptic dystopia stripped of nature.
The £427m Olympic Stadium, damned with faint praise before the Games as a Meccano structure without the wow factor of Beijing Bird's Nest, succeeded precisely because of its stripped back nature and stirring acoustics.
The car had mounted a nature strip and hit a small brick wall".
But we glimpsed another LA, one not consumed by automobiles, or turned into a strip mall, where nature and human optimism thrive in a watery realm, an ever so slightly mystic river.
This is a dangerous practice, given that the best comedy, from Ben Jonson to Preston Sturges, was designed to strip our nobler nature down to its socks; but it is perfect for a star like Roberts, whose levity tends to darken, not dazzle, with the onset of perplexity.
Forgot to mow the nature strip?
Accordingly, they chose solar power, water recycling (66%%), parks, nature strip (70%%), public transport (74%%) and community gardens (74%%) as desirable features for the future of their local community.
Pretty soon the company director's nature strip was full, so we moved to their front yard and porch.
Their neat nature strips with cement borders.
In St Kilda some of the nature strips looked like small rivers.
