Word: verdant
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Loving & Loafing. For Bergman, the full life revolves around three places -Paris, Rome and Danholmen, her private island off the Swedish coast. "Paris is my home," she says, meaning a verdant country estate 25 miles from the city, where Third Husband Lars Schmidt, 50, bases his operations as the Continent's leading theatrical producer. Inevitably, there are first nights and informal suppers for five...
...Electra Havemeyer was not quite an ordinary little girl. The daughter of Multimillionaire Sugar Refiner Henry O. Havemeyer, she was mar ried in 1910 to J. Watson Webb, a polo-playing great-grandson of Commodore Cornelius Vanderbilt. Webb eventually inherited a house and spacious tract of land by the verdant Vermont shores of Lake Champlain. It seemed to be just the place to house Electra's collection of dolls, dollhouses - and, in fact, of every last thingumajig and whatchamacallit ever made in early America. In 1947, Mrs. Webb bought eight acres of land near the estate to create...
...solutions. Garbage has been used for years to create dry land from marshes and shallow tidal water; New York's La Guardia Airport is only one famous landmark that was built on refuse. Now Virginia Beach, Va., wants to see if it can turn its trash into a verdant natural stadium, using the leftovers to mold hills for children to play...
...vestigial remains of subject-matter. The rich, almost voluptuous, color of the Louis paintings and the organic growth of the forms have more in common with Art Nouveau. Gauguin's rich palette and his gently curving patterns immediately come to mind. Louis' forms also suggest some affinity to the verdant, celluar shapes in the paintings of Georgia O'Keefe...
...Sukarno has made of Indonesia. As a Dutch colony before World War II, Indonesia supplied one-fifth of the world's tea, one-third of its rubber and palm oil, two-fifths of its kapok and four-fifths of its pepper. Scattered throughout Indonesia's 3,000 verdant islands are rich mineral deposits -gold, tin, bauxite, tungsten-and oil reserves. "Indonesia is rich in natural resources," says Suharto, "but the damage done to our country's economy has been severe...