Word: cypresses
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Harvard's most elaborate property is the 16th century Italian estate, Villa I Tatti. Surrounded by two lines of grand cypress trees, carefully manicured hedges and impressive fountains, the Center for Renaissance Studies offers scholars a place to indulge in their studies and the Italian way of life...
...whiplash rhythms of art nouveau. But this handwriting was not mechanically stamped on the landscape, as the style marks of mere obsessives tend to be. On the contrary, it was infinitely responsive to the nuances of fact. Dealing with the "difficult bottle-green hue" of his famous motif, the cypress (of which the real landscape around Saint-Remy is now disappointingly short), he went to great trouble to set forth the realities inside its hairy, obelisk-like silhouette: the mauve cast of shadow on the trunk and branches, the sparks of almost pure chrome within the enfolding darkness...
...channel the shrimper allows that he bought his 40-ft., all- cypress boat four years ago for $15,000, from a neighbor named Buddy Wannage. He says he paid too much for it, and that so far he has only managed to pay the interest on his loan. He does not know the age of his boat -- "People make them in their backyard. It's not a factory rig" -- which at this very moment is breaking down, just shy of the Firing Line. An exhaust sleeve is spewing dirty water like a coffee percolator gone wild. Overheated, dead...
...pleased Sony said last week that it would now invest some $30 million to expand its TV manufacturing plant in San Diego and $5 million in a new headquarters in Cypress. Other overseas firms that have avoided California are also expected to invest there...
...stands, with its green shutters, 14 rooms and veranda and upstairs gallery extending the width of the 53-ft. front. Elsie Reeves Baum, 71, of Creswell, expects the day to swing from sad to happy as she and others walk among the ghosts of their forebears and the splendid cypress trees they planted. Says she: "They sang the same spirituals we sing. 'Steal Away to Jesus!' And 'All o' God's Chillun Got Shoes' . . . For us to walk on the soil where they walked -- there is going to be some crying and everything...