Word: garden
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...leagues with-fat broadcast contracts. Even long-established leagues are suffering: a majority of the National Basketball Association's 18 teams are losing money. Once unobtainable, tickets to New York Knicks games against N.B.A. opponents are suddenly easier to get now that inflation has driven Madison Square Garden ticket prices as high as $10.50 each...
...heart disease. The hoped-for visit with Mao Tse-tung did not materialize. There was plenty of sightseeing, however, much of it done by Kissinger's wife Nancy and his two teen-age children. On the final day of the visit, the entire party flew to the ancient garden city of Suchow, 600 miles south of Peking, where Kissinger was taken to a spot named, significantly, "the Garden of Foolish Politicians...
...freshman, I could at my leisure amble down to the Orpheum box office a few days after tickets had gone on sale, avoid that claustrophobia-inducing crowd, and still get a pair of pretty decent seats. This year I had to go to the Garden box office the night before tickets went on sale and brave the pouring rain the following day in order to wind up with a couple of 16th row seats. The taste of success is indeed sweet. Yes at the Boston Garden Wednesday, December...
...certain two-legged species. From all that I've heard, there still seems to be a lot of wrinkles left to iron out in Harrison's present tour. Let's hope the horse regains his footing at least in time for the Boston date. George Harrison at the Garden on Tuesday...
...world they never made. These are men, Snow seems to say, curiously out of touch, not only with their times but with their wives and their children and finally with themselves. Yet as he records the patrician drone of the House of Lords or the fatuousness of a garden party (with electric heaters), Snow notes other factors too: "Endurance, good sense, realism, a kind of courage...