Word: garden
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...fine garden that Antonio Carrozzi kept. There were tall, aggressive beanstalks. Jungles of pregnant tomato vines. Ears of corn like golden footballs. And out front, placed there to conceal the tempting vegetables from passersby, 300 spindly marijuana plants...
...venom suggests to me the peaceful ways of most living things other than man. No, I do not see the snakes as seeking revenge (justified though they may be) upon the bulldozer, but as serpents coming to tempt us, before it is too late, back to the Garden of Eden...
Gamy Strategy. None of this, however, kept the mighty roof from leaking, helped wash the 10,000 windowpanes, or prevented the spacious garden from going to weed. "Without a staff of at least 25 persons," says the castle's owner, the Count de la Panouse, "the domain falls apart." To finance the estate, the château was opened to the public in 1966, but the 20,000 visitors it drew that year were not enough to pay the bills. It was the count's son Paul, now 26, who persuaded his father to let him turn...
Before he left the capital, however, Nixon had to pluck a couple of unavoidable legislative nettles. One of them was more than garden variety: renewal of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, which came to his desk for signature with a provision for votes for 18-year-olds firmly attached. Despite reservations, Nixon put his name to the measure largely to avoid offending blacks, who consider the voting-rights extension vital. "We never had the blacks with us," an aide explained, "but the President is trying now to get across the idea that he is not their enemy...
...Cardin, Coco Chanel and Stavros Niarchos. Sir John Wheeler-Bennett, the eminent historian, has been wearing his bracelet for three or four years and says its effects are "frightfully good." He admits that his wrist turns green, but then "all that is part of the juju, what?" Lanning Roper, garden editor of London's Sunday Times, another believer, has discovered an added benefit. "During the last hot spell," he told TIME'S Betty Suyker, "I took it off for a few days and suddenly I felt...