Word: garden
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...those eight days the center was the White House warren, where he roamed in the cool and very calm corridors from his hideaway in the Executive Office Building to his small study, to the Oval Office, into the Rose Garden, to the staff quarters, on over to the mansion. But the outside world was let in only in controlled doses. He had the reports and memos of his men on the crisis itself. He relied on his own special news summary. "I did not want the hot words of television. Anyone watching television would have thought that war was declared...
...through the first day, we waited in vain for the Jordanian army to acknowledge our existence. At one point, some photographers and TV cameramen ventured into the hotel garden, hoping to attach themselves to a group of soldiers and get closer to the war. The soldiers waved them back and fired over their heads. Undaunted, the reporters climbed to the balconies of the hotel with their equipment. A Swedish cameraman waved to a Bedouin soldier in an armored car and was promptly shot in the leg. By some miracle, there were no more casualties among...
Robert Flynn is one of those theologian-novelists who back their characters up against a dead-end wall and demand their credo or their life. In his latest little parable, Flynn proves he could turn even the Garden of Eden into one of his cul-de-sacs...
Antonio Como (José Luis López Vásquez) is a once powerful industrialist reduced by an automobile accident to a virtual vegetable in his own garden. His incapacity is pitifully childlike: to entice him to drink his daily milkshake, a servant must first bare her breast. But his mind still functions with chaotic clarity as he fantasizes the possible consequences of his helplessness. He sees himself in his wheelchair careening wildly across the quiet greensward and into the swimming pool; mailed lancers from the picture that covers his office wall safe appear before...
...talked for a while about the war, and then he turned down the garden hose and laid it in a trough he had made around a lemon tree...