Word: garden
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Boston Garden is the second ugliest empty building in the city. (The ugliest is the Boston Arena, home of high school hockey and Boston's seamier wrestling shows.) The Garden has bad acoustics, bad atmosphere, a consistent tendency to trap smoke, exposed rafters, and uncomfortable chairs. It also has more seats than most promoters can handle. Which is why there is an alert group standing by the press gate on Monday evening. Because on Tuesday and Wednesday evenings, the Rolling Stones will fill the cavern with people, mostly young...
...standing in knots at the Garden loading docks. The union crews are placing the chairs on the Garden floor, and the small mechanized transport trucks, preceded by a brusque "Watch it fellas," are shipping chairs into the main arena. The arrangement of our hiring dictates that each person knows at least two others who are also working, and we're neatly divided into threes and fours...
...assortment of kids and "union types." For every toothless 50-year old veteran of hockey riots, there's a pimply-faced adolescent in a Mickey Mouse T-shirt. They're setting up the orchestra chairs in blocks of four on the cement floor. The leader of a Garden union crew is easy to find. He's shouting. In fact, all pre-show vocal business at the Garden is carried out at the top of the lungs...
...Klute--Garden Cinema. 4, 8, Summer...
...since been learned about hashish suggests that while the crusaders may have been good fighters, they were rotten reporters. More likely, the bloodthirsty sheik, if he ever existed, gave his men hash after, not before, their exploits, during a period of rewarding rest and recreation in a perfumed garden peopled with houris...