Word: boxwood
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Harry Truman's Buxus sempervirens "Suffruticosa" is up to 10 ft. Because the White House police can no longer see over this boxwood hedge at the front entrance, it will soon be trimmed down for better security. And the Fagus sylvatica "Asplenifolia" trees, so lovingly planted by Lady Bird Johnson and Pat Nixon, are gorgeously full of life, even though these fern-leaf beeches are close by the press area, where the air on most days is believed to be considerably hotter than normal...
...last week as No. 2 Miami went head to head with No. 1 Oklahoma while Testaverde at least seemed to be similarly engaged with Brian Bosworth. Events in college football have seldom been so clear cut. Bosworth is an unruly linebacker who prunes his head like a boxwood bush and streaks it with rainbows to spell out individuality. Even as its children have taken to emulating him, the Oklahoma Bible Belt has somehow been able to rationalize Bosworth, to forgive the occasional "loogie" he talks of spitting into opponents' faces, and to disregard some other troubling things he says, like...
...Street). For some viewers, at least, her maturity as an artist begins with an outpouring of drawings and paintings around 1980, all on the same subject: the garden of a rented house in the south of France, an unremarkable scene of a small rectangular pool surrounded by a low boxwood hedge, rhododendrons and a claustrophobic screen of dank, suburban cypresses...