Word: clover
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...understandably peeved to see Manager Joe Torre, fired only last year, thriving with the Braves, and General Manager Joe McDonald, forced out the year before, frolicking with the St. Louis Cardinals, there seems to be little animosity now even for winners. Gene Autry bought the Angels' way into clover this year as surely as any owner ever did. But the cowboy has shown a grace by comparison that makes even wealth forgivable. "Oh, well," Autry comforted Reggie Jackson when Reggie slumped in September. "I made some pretty bad westerns too." Now that's the way to take...
...include traditional notables like hot toddy, hot lemonade, chicken broth, regional potions like the South's horehound and pine-needle tea, and ethnic preparations featuring ingredients like honey, garlic and cayenne. Faith is widespread in the anticold potency of herbs like eucalyptus, mullein leaves, bloodroot and red clover. California Herb Specialist Michael Tierra commends a concoction of honeysuckle, chrysanthemum and licorice...
Streams are turned into storm sewers. An expressway is hacked through the landscape. Then a clover leaf, then a regional shopping center, then office buildings, then high-rise apartments. In this way, the bits and pieces of a city are splattered across the landscape. By this irrational process, non-communities are born, formless places without order, beauty or reason, with no visible respect for either people or the land...
...behind the mudgreen canvas curtain. This hall, on the seen better-days grounds of Exposition Park in Springfield, usually hosts the sort of "family fun" that draws disposable income to amusement parks--four-piece combos that play "K-K-K-Katy" and "I'm Looking Over a Four Leaf Clover." The roller coaster next door has been closed down, and a few kiddy rides, a haunted house, and a miniature golf course are about all that's left. But this pavillion with the corner soaked in baby oil is a moccs of sorts. For years and years, boys...
...situation by opening a stunning new museum in Corning, N.Y., devoted to just this purpose. The building is worthy of its mission. It is an innovative and handsome structure designed by Architect Gunnar Birkerts, sheathed in paneled plate glass and laid out in the shape of a crazed clover leaf, a library in its center, a series of bays assigned to each of twelve major glassmaking styles...