Word: fountains
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...people have the inside view of the bathrooms of U.S. Presidents. As the main White House plumber for seven Presidents, Howard Arrington (above, center) fished out golf balls that Dwight Eisenhower drove into the South Lawn fountain and appeased a testy Lyndon Johnson's demands for more body sprays in his shower. After Watergate made plumbing a nasty euphemism, Arrington explained, "I'm the real White House plumber...
...youngest of ages. The US is hardly innocent in this quest—one need only think of pre-pubescent Olympic gymnasts, the Freddy Adu craze, and 15-year old swimming phenoms—but both college football and college basketball have somewhat resisted the urge to uncover the Fountain of Youth.Globally, the best soccer players are hunted out well before they are old enough to worry about going to college. Brazil provides the best example, with its surfeit of young talent that crops up every four years, but even England reveals its newly minted teenage prodigy at every World...
...Pasternack is hopeful for the future of art and garbage, citing the past success of Marcel Duchamp’s 1917 work Fountain, which was “essentially a toilet bowl that he found in the garbage. A mass-produced urinal. He put his name on it and it went into a museum...he questioned ‘what exactly...
Seattle's new Olympic Sculpture Park occupies a sloping nine-acre site that reaches down to the water's edge along Elliott Bay. It has views of Puget Sound and the Olympic Mountains. It has wild grasses, quaking aspens and a salmon habitat on the shoreline. It has a fountain by Louise Bourgeois, an Alexander Calder, a couple of Mark di Suveros and one of Richard Serra's virtuoso exercises in rusted steel. It also has freight trains...
...final round, Pachter and I go to the Fountain, an elegant, chandeliered restaurant at the Four Seasons Hotel in Philly. I'm daydreaming about the Coach bag I'm going to buy. I order fish, and I know exactly which fork to select. I'm a Biz Et grad, after all. Then as I continue my witty repartee, I lean on my bread dish, sending the butter knife clattering to the floor. We both burst out laughing...