Word: gardener
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...making it these days, friends, and sometimes it seems I'm only limping along elsewhere. Of course no one would ever suspect. On paper my life is beautiful, meaningful, creative, posh. Sensitive devoted husband, perhaps slightly less anxious about my success but it scarcely shows. House and Garden real estate, overlooking Central Park and on the dunes in the fiercely stylish Hamptons. Booming career. I am a screenwriter. I am the screenwriter, Katharine Wallis Alexander. Not too many hassles these days. They are talking Redford, Fonda, Coppola and $150,000 with a very nice percentage for my next script. Everyone...
Since then, Kleinfelder, with the help of Nikki Janus, assistant athletic director, has succeeded in bringing the Ivy League Women's Basketball Tournament to Harvard for the 1977-78 season. Her next goal, she says, is to play the tournament final in Boston Garden...
...Madame Mao's personal life was said to be like that of the 7th century Empress Wu, notorious for her extravagance and lubricity. Accordingly, Chiang Ch'ing ordered every insect killed and every leaf dusted by her minions before she would venture to visit a Canton botanical garden. During bouts of insomnia, the imperious lady issued orders that work at a nearby noisy shipbuilding factory be stopped. So sensitive was she to noise that she once ordered her waiters to deliver her food while walking on tiptoe...
Whenever he got a pass that gave him a few days off from the cuckoo's nest, Rauschenberg would simply head for the nearest highway and start thumbing rides to anywhere. On one of these time-killing trips, Rauschenberg heard about the cactus garden at the Huntington Library in San Marino. He went there ?and found that the library had paintings in it, the first "real" paintings he had ever seen: Sir Joshua Reynolds' Portrait of Mrs. Siddons as the Tragic Muse and Thomas Gainsborough's The Blue Boy. These suave, bright ghosts of Georgian culture stupefied Rauschenberg...
Apart from the bride and groom, the happiest person at next week's Beverly Hills wedding may well be the fellow who controls the car-parking concession. Some 800 guests have been summoned to the lavish black-tie garden party to watch sometime Actress Marisa Berenson (Barry Lyndon), 29, hook up with Rivet Manufacturer James Randall, 32. The bride will don a gown by Valentino for the occasion, and she says that her attendants "will wear whatever they wish to wear." They will not, says Marisa, dress in shocking pink in memory of her late grandmother, Designer Elsa Schiaparelli...