Word: garden
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...month prison term for contempt of Congress. He later served a 31/2-year term for income tax evasion. After an unsuccessful gangland attempt on his life in 1957, and a long, successful battle against deportation, Costello spent his last decade in quiet retirement, cultivating his Long Island garden...
...Dada was to negate everything that art had stood for in the past. Yet Ernst's love of images that rise from chance blots has a pedigree that goes back to Leonardo, who spoke of finding battle scenes in stains on a wall. His obsessive themes-the haunted garden of decaying vegetation, the birds and chimeras, the figures of Loplop and La Belle Jardinière-describe a territory of imagination that seems both mysterious and exactly mapped...
Most of the play's jokes derive from Albert's inability to understand why affection is more important than money. "What good is one rose from that waiter?" he asks. "I give her a whole garden." In a set reminiscent of upper middle class bedrooms in every divorce comedy of the last five years, Albert lies on his back pondering such questions through much of the first...
...Sunken Garden...
...building is planned to fit into its surroundings," Williams said. "Land-scaping, including a sunken garden, a terrace and more trees, will improve the quadrangle where the building will be located...