Word: lawns
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...front yard contains half a dozen spindly trees. The shade chokes out the lawn, leaving just mud and weeds. My neighbor’s dogs, which number between three and five at any given time and are always of the larger variety, wander around the front yard, growling at passersby. The entire mess is barely contained by an old chain-link fence, over which grow ivy and morning glory so thick that the wires are no longer visible. The ivy hangs in a curtain around her porch and climbs up to the top of the house, twining itself around...
Just before 8:46 a.m. on Sept. 11--the moment that, two years ago, American Airlines Flight 11 crashed into the north tower of the World Trade Center--President George W. Bush, Vice President Dick Cheney and their wives stepped onto the lawn of the White House for a moment of silence. During that long day of remembrance, the President's only public engagement was at St. John's Church on Lafayette Square, across the street from the White House. A year ago, Bush spent 14 hours visiting all three sites of destruction and death--downtown Manhattan, the Pentagon...
...hajj to London's West End to see the latest shows. I was there this year during an unseasonably warm spell. The English are so unused to balmy weather that, when the sun takes a robust turn, they rush outside, roll up their sleeves and flop on a lawn or bench for a London broil. All that fair skin takes a ruthless incinerating; by day's end, the only color anyone's wearing on face and arms is pink. I guess, considering the caustic images of American statesmen and media figures in the shows I saw over there, my face...
...greater framework of such themes as identity, meaning and the interplay of good and evil. Bidart will read from his chapbook Music Like Dirt, as well as the new Collected Poems by poet Robert Lowell, which he edited. Sunday, August 3 at 4:00 p.m. Free. East Lawn of Longfellow National Historic Site, 105 Brattle...
...LAWN MOWING With landscaping companies charging big bucks, teens who take less can beat the competition...