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...four women, quietly in mourning for the past, are emblems of a Britain whose imperial grandeur was violated by the Great War, its ashes sowing their memories. Mrs. Fisher says it, but they all want it: "to sit in the shade and remember better times and better...
...energy Democrats usually expend fighting with one another went into a big-budget Hollywood production, complete with filmed biographies by Harry Thomason and Linda Bloodworth-Thomason, the creators of TV's Designing Women and Evening Shade. One of the highlights was a 1963 film clip showing John Kennedy shaking hands in the Rose Garden with the 16-year-old Clinton, a priceless piece of celluloid that Clinton aide Frank Greer dug out of the Kennedy Library...
...five-minute stroll across a gleaming white bridge that spans the Guadalquivir River in Seville. On one / side, near the monastery where Christopher Columbus was once buried, rise the extravagant pavilions of the Universal Exposition. There, 250 fountains gurgle, 325,000 newly planted trees and shrubs shade the weary, and 96 restaurants replenish the hungry. But once over the bridge, sidewalks crumble and the highway dead-ends in a stinking garbage dump known as El Vacie. Within earshot of Expo 92's loudspeakers, 500 Sevillians elbow one another for their daily water ration from a small fountain...
...NOON in Harvard Yard, and for the most part, the drilling has stopped. Construction crews, breakage from their work on the Yard's water main, lounge in the shade of tall elm trees to eat their lunch...
...there was the venerable tree, which, as the year progressed, achieved "friend" status for me and my roommate, Sonya. Not only did the tree provide shade for daydreaming and procrastinating, it also became the final resting place of Sonya's pepper plant. Her miniature plant had attempted suicide not once, but twice by leaping from our window sill...