Word: perched
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...private peace. The "fizz" pool shoots up some 25 spray jets, producing a continual mist -"like ground fog settling among trees or over a swamp." The "rush" is a deep vortex of cascading water, studded with descending steps on which children and adults can climb, play or simply perch in the rejuvenating flow...
...Auchincloss ("My father is Jacqueline Kennedy's stepfather's first cousin") is to the novel-of-manners born. Credentials include Groton, Yale, U S Navy and Wall Street, where the 59-year-old author is an estates and trusts lawyer. What better perch from which to observe human nature. Matters can be hidden from a psychoanalyst that can never be hidden from the man who draws up one's will. Perhaps because they usually survive to become the inheritors, women have been especially strong characters in Auchincloss's fiction. "After the age of about...
...well as the howlers - live in somewhat better style than the Lindberghs, who keep only two of the manor's ten drafty rooms heated. By contrast, their primate wards have roomy indoor cages painted pink (the monkeys' favorite color) that are equipped with real tree branches to perch on, ultraviolet lights to ward off infection, radiators, circulating water, and hammocks for naps. Their diet is lavish. Scott calls it "saturation feeding"; Alika, though promoting it, calls it gas-pillage - "sheer waste." The animals are served such an abundance of fruits and vegetables that they eat only the choicest...
...helluva welcome," mused Roots Author Alex Haley from his perch on the Gambian presidential yacht. "You couldn't have staged that if you wanted to." Haley, 55, was delighted by the tumult of drums, whistles, musket shots, and whirling dancers dressed in leaves-all a salute to him and his brothers George, a lawyer, and Julius, an architect, on their return "home" to the Gambian village of Juffure. There Alex handed the traditional gift of kola nuts to the eldest member of the Kinte family, a distant relative. If all goes according to plan, many other root seekers will...
...south lawn of the White House, the 4-ft. by 5-ft. platform is raised on wooden stilts and can be reached by shinnying up a sturdy old Atlas cedar. Amy introduced her 20-month-old nephew Jason, son of Jack and Judy Carter, to her leafy perch last week, and even her dad, says the First Child, "climbed up here once." The architect of the project is the President, who remembers well his own childhood tree house in Plains, Ga. When playing in it one day, he refused to answer a parental summons and was forced rudely back...