Word: gardened
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Susan Ebel NEW ORLEANS A private chef, she feels lucky that her 150-year-old Garden District home "never lost a pane of glass." She resisted the idea of evacuation and sees shortages of ice and coffee as a "Zen experience...
...most appealing neighborhoods, New Orleans is already something better than any mere visionary idea. It's a city that people love precisely for its unrationalized flavor, for its freewheeling French Quarter and its elegant Garden District, both largely spared. But beyond the city known to tourists, it's also a place riven by class and race; of its 485,000 people, 67% are African American, many of them poor. The city they knew was already fraying at its foundation, its history crowded with a long line of buccaneers in public office offering dreams with one hand while pilfering with...
...expressionists began enlarging their canvases back in the late 1940s, American paintings have been getting bigger and bigger. To show the lengths?and heights?that artists are going to nowadays, Manhattan's Jewish Museum this week put on display 23 mural-size paintings ... The largest, Al Held's Greek Garden, is a breathtaking panorama of cabalistic circles, squares and triangles that measures 12 ft. [3.5 m] high?and 56 ft. [17 m] long. The museum's curator, Kynaston McShine, who selected the paintings, unpretentiously bills his exhibit as an 'airy, informal, summer exhibition of big, beautiful paintings...
DENNIS R. HIDALGO ASSISTANT PROFESSOR OF HISTORY ADELPHI UNIVERSITY Garden City...
...entrepreneur a lot of potential for growth. "People thought I was crazy, a girly-girl like me who is careful with her hair and makeup working with truckers and going into such a 'guy' kind of business," says Letizia, who has two grown children. "But I don't paint, garden or sew, and I wanted to make my mark on the world in a way that made sense to me, even if not to everyone else...