Throughout the album Shlohmo stakes out an unlikely turf where the ambient meets the abrasive.
Worse, the smartphone battle is increasingly being fought on the firms' home turf, where they once enjoyed a virtual monopoly.
"It was there that I would make my closest white friends, on turf where blackness couldn't be a disadvantage".
And restaurants have often been the turf where desegregation was fought: including, famously, the Woolworth lunch counter in Greensboro, N.C.
Shadows in the turf where trees used to grow: a reminder that the field was once an orchard.
This is Barkley's turf: where insults are currency, even if the targets are sometimes wives, girlfriends or mamas.
One of them tracked Mr. Awlaki with live video on Yemeni tribal turf, where it is too dangerous for American troops to go.
Most at risk are willows, poplars and conifers, which have shallow root systems, close to the turf where the product is applied, they add.
It underscores the social and economic pressures to join the Swedish pack, the common turf where its supportive, all-embracing system thrives.
But here on Mr. Bastos's home turf, where he has long had a reputation as an early adopter of technology, there were lots of knowing nods.
Instead it was his local rivals who embarrassed themselves in the Turf, where they set the race up with a reckless gallop.
