Word: clovers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Except for the barking of stray dogs, the Inlet is a quiet neighborhood, not because of its tranquillity but because of its gaps -- vacant lots where houses were razed and replaced by fields of pink clover, Queen Anne's lace and beer-bottle shards. Here and there are anachronistic gestures to elegance -- carved laurels in a window casement, a Victorian turret, delicate porch columns -- that lend the scene the haunted air of a horror-movie set. At times the Inlet seems just a bad joke. Standing over one bunker-style housing & project is a billboard touting one of developer Donald...
...best: generous, fertile, humble and at peace. For some the vision may be exquisitely formal, a garden of thought and geometry, traced with tulips and a perfectly taut hedge. For others it is wild and artless, with shaggy trees and hiding places and children splashing in clover. Even if we have never been there, we know what it looks like...
...roots. When Oceanographer Melissa Denny decided a few years ago that it was time to stay home and cultivate her children, she and her husband bought a house in Everett, Wash., on half an acre of mud and blackberries. Her staunchly evergreen neighbors watched in amazement as she planted clover and rye grass, let it grow a foot high, then plowed it under. Raised vegetable beds and fruit trees began to appear. Then local children gathered, holding tricycle races on the sawdust paths. "They all come over to graze," she laughs. "I have to grow twice as many strawberries...
While Congress attempts to tiptoe around the issue of federal raises, its most prominent pensioner has left the constraints of a Government salary far behind. Tip O'Neill in retirement is Tip O'Neill in clover. Had he stayed on as Speaker of the House, O'Neill, 74, would be earning $100,800. In retirement, he stands to rake in as much as $400,000 this year...
...time when Massachusetts unemployment rates are the lowest in the country, standing at 3.9 percent as compared with the national rate of 7 percent, such stores in Harvard Square as Brigham's, Store 24, Pennsylvania Clothes, Wild Tops, Crimson and Clover Florists, and Herrell's Ice Cream are desperate to find workers...