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...which gathers force at swift pace, peaks, and then subsides to make way for the next demonstration of argumentative virtuosity. In Shakespeare we find ourselves in a dense forest, think with the odor of vegetable combustion and overrun with luxuriant undergrowth. Moliere places us on a manicured, perfumed lawn to follow along a box-wood maze of clipped hedges...
...Prescribe hours during which noisemakers, like private power lawn-mowers or public garbage-grinding trucks, can operate...
...entries, there appears a string of numbers and odd symbols. Eventually, a newspaper story produced enough hints from amateur code breakers to show that the numbers stood for vowels (1A, 2-E, etc.), and the symbols were simply unfinished letters. The surprisingly tame translation: "Spent the evening on the lawn and Alice confided in me." Next day: "Worried over Alice all night." Seven months later: "The Commonwealth sails for Europe." Nine months later: "After lunch, have a never-to-be-forgotten walk to the river with my darling. Have to go to New York next Sunday." But who was Alice...
...doesn't walk onstage. She insinuates herself. Rotary-drive hips, and fingers that were probably snapping out rhythms in the cradle. Overstuffed bosom beneath a Pucci dress, $450 shoulder-length brown wig, and eyelashes long enough to rake a lawn with. She coolly surveys the scene and lets fly with a sassafras falsetto: "Whoooo-eeeee! Watch out, honey! Don't you touch me! Don't you ever touch me!" Or: "When you're hot, you're hot; when you're not, you're not." Or her trademark: "What you see is what...
...Radcliffe squash team will help to represent Boston in the Howe Cup, a women's squash racquets tournament dated for January 29 and 30 at the New Haven, Conn. Lawn Club...