Word: grottos
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Pope was buried in the grotto of St. Peter's Basilica, the resting place of 146 other popes...
...approaching call of spring, however, beckons every golfer from his secret grotto. Yesterday, Harvard golfer Spence Fitzgibbons and I furtively crept out way across the Eliot House courtyard and teed up a Titleist before the banks of the Charles. I performed the functions of Spence's caddy, looking somewhat like a hod carrier for a bricklayer. With only a chorus of quizzical birds watching, Spence unsheathed a nine-iron from his bag and sent the first shot of spring skittering across the Charles. To paraphrase Jos Sedley in Vanity Fair: "Gad, there we were, singing away like--a robin...
Jungle wallpaper has transformed the kitchen into an ersatz fern grotto. The bedroom is nothing less than rococo. The spirit of Mardi Gras inhabits the game room. But the soul of Malibu's newest $800,000 mansion lies in its bathroom. "I thought it only appropriate to cover the walls with rocks," smiles The Who's millionaire drummer, Keith Moon, 30. "The house does belong to a rock star...
Sleep overtakes once again, but the nightmares begin anew. This time the scene is the hot, steamy, grimy, grotto of Boston Garden. The date is March 15, 1974 and the images are horribly clear and familiar...
...Haunted Grotto. The evening was an emphatic justification of the aims of the Jackson company. Until the founding of Opera/South, there was little opportunity in Mississippi for blacks to sing opera. The backing of three Jackson-area black colleges-Jackson State, Tougaloo and Utica Junior-has made a musical theater workable. Students sing in the chorus, build sets and fashion costumes. Bayou Legend's simple but effective one-piece set-a double-trunked oak tree that for the Act II duet between Bazile and Aurore turns magically into a haunted grotto-required only $2,000 of the company...