Word: gardening
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...kind of sacrifice required a lot of money. It meant extensive travel to look at art: it meant building an art library of close to 50,000 volumes together with a now priceless art collection. It required many servants, researchers, a Tuscan villa with a vast formal garden in which to "taste the air." Hearing that he had his watch warmed to body temperature by the butler every morning before he strapped it on his wrist, impatient folk inclined to dismiss Berenson as a lucky hedonist. But he was really an ascetic in reverse who worked untiringly at sipping...
...thing in private but on the speaker's stand they say something else. That is not freedom of expression but terror and adulation . . . The idea has been created that everyone who disagrees is an undesirable element." This kind of liberty, said Diario, is like a garden with the sign: "Enter-but beware of dogs." Added Avance Columnist Agustin Tamargo: "You do not want newspapermen. Commander Castro; you want a record player...
...experimental summer house is one of Aalto's favorite projects-the small town hall for Saynatsalo (pop. 3,000). "I wanted to make it a town center, a building that would gather in people," Aalto explains, making a gathering-in motion with his arms, "so I put the garden inside, and then the inside is no longer neutral. I lifted the building up to make a vertical difference between the traffic in the street and the people meeting inside. The street is full of the gases of automobiles. We lift up the human being...
...Cole drives himself as fast as he can. He steps out of bed at 6 a.m., putters around his garden (orchids, Ficus, dracaena and billbergia plants), has a breakfast of cereal and fruit, hops into a black Impala hardtop. He drives the 30 miles from his home in Bloomfield Hills to his Detroit office in 35 minutes, arriving at 8:10 sharp. In a typical day Cole averages a conference almost every half hour, drives more than 150 miles to various Chevy plants, is rarely home before 7 p.m. Like any good mechanic. Cole applies preventive maintenance. He neither drinks...
...ordered to cut Bonaparte's household from ?18,000 to ?8,000. Napoleon promptly had his table silver pounded into a shapeless mass, weighed and sold openly in town. Vindictively Lowe restricted Napoleon to a shadeless plain for horseback riding, and forbade him to enter his own garden after dusk...