Word: cave
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sometimes traumatic experience-where to put the chairs, how to arrange the sofas in the conversation area, and what decorating style to choose. A growing number of architect-designers may have found the solution to these troublesome questions: no furniture at all. Man's earliest shelter was a cave with a rock to sit on, and perhaps it gave him more peace of mind than a cluttered room in a contemporary home...
Then Lolita led us along to her cave along the shore. She hid behind a rock in it until we spied her. The mother noticed a bikini top lying on another rock there. "Oh, do get a picture of that! Just the bra sitting on the rock." Meanwhile, Lolita had found us flowers, and then she flitted up a stone stairway in the cliff to the grassy top. Why do the birds go on singing...
...many people have heard of Cynthia Smith-until now. She is a 1969 cum laude graduate of the Law School, where she was Treasurer and Director of the Legal Aid Bureau. A resident of Cambridge, she practices law and manages Cave Atlantique, Inc., a wine importing firm which she founded with her husband. She is also a trustee of the Avon House, a well-known Social Agency in Cambridge. When Smith learned that only 200 signatures were required to place a candidate on the Overseers
...together as "gothics," romantic suspense stories or romantic biography would be more descriptive. Under any heading, the genre comprises one of the few boom areas in a generally depressed publishing industry. In the past year or so, sales have almost doubled. Three notable examples-Mary Stewart's Crystal Cave, Victoria Holt's Secret Woman and Elizabeth Goudge's Child from the Sea -all spent a comfortable winter on the bestseller lists. For top gothics, paperback sales-the real and durable market-can run into the millions...
Hammock and Hatch. The selection is staggering. There is the Cave, a dim-gray cavern carpeted in cowhide, furnished with stalactites, stalagmites and a massive bed that stands 80 feet from the door. For Fanatics there is also a miniature petrified forest in which to frolic. The Round Room, designed without a single corner, features a circular bed with translucent chiffon panels above. At the pull of a silken rope, the panels part, revealing a skylight view of the stars. The Polynesian Room offers a ten-foot hammock, the Arabian Room a floor-level bed surrounded by mirrors...