Word: gardened
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Pacers, and though he shot only 7 of 28, he moved well considering he had been playing baseball for a year. The game, on NBC, was the most-watched regular-season N.B.A. game in history. Three nights later, in his final appearance in the soon-to-be-scrapped Boston Garden, he scored 27 points in just 26 minutes. His performance was nearly as impressive as the 63 points he scored in a 1986 play-off game on the same parquet floor...
...seems to represent an aggressive, outward-reaching insanity, as if Koresh had somehow become melded with the Tylenol killer. It suggests a new type of evil, a terrorism whose demands are so personal and obscure that no one can understand them, let alone satisfy them. Or put another way, garden-variety madness had got access to weapons of terror...
...Savannah these days, when people talk about "the Book," they are referring not to the Bible but to Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, the best-selling suspense yarn by journalist John Berendt. The true account of a notorious 1981 Savannah homicide case, the book is now in its 46th printing and three weeks ago, passed the one-year mark on the New York Times' best-seller list. It has been translated into six languages, including Norwegian, is being developed as a movie by Warner Bros., and has sparked a tourist boom in the genteel town of Savannah...
...Cemetery, where the homicide victim used to collect his thoughts and rendezvous with his girlfriend, and Mercer House, the scene of the killing. Predictably, Savannah's merchants offer plenty of Midnight memorabilia like maps and T shirts. A cafa featured in the book now serves "fresh salads from our garden of good and evil...
America's leading gargoylophile, Michael Stopka of Chicago's Design Toscano, is a beneficiary and an instigator of the trend. In five years his business--"historical reproductions for home and garden"--has grown from a $6,000 stake to $6 million in sales, thanks largely to gargoyle paperweights, gargoyle table bases-even the occasional gargoyle lamp finial. Stopka links the knobby monsters' popularity to the current vogue of cherubim as a design motif, though he makes an interesting distinction: while gargoyle fanciers are largely male, angelic perfection tends to draw women. Men, apparently, feel more at home with the grotesque...