Word: garden
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...Covent Garden, Bizet's Carmen was performed in total darkness. In Soho, a resourceful strip-club owner issued flashlights to his patrons so that the show could go on. A TV mystery went off the air just as the detective was saying "The person we want for murder is . . ." Parliament debated, and the Queen took afternoon tea, by candlelight. Millions of homes were without heat, electricity or hot water for long periods, and whole areas of London resembled the capital during the wartime blitz. Darkness and gloom had descended on Britain because 125,000 Electrical Trades Union (E.T.U.) workers...
...fight night last week, a capacity crowd of 19,417 jammed Madison Square Garden and paid $615,401−the largest gate ever recorded for a nontitle bout. Ali, who forsook his limousine for the subway so he could accompany the "little people" to the fight, turned out in red trunks and white shoes with dangling red tassels ("Bulls don't like red," he explained). Like a matador, he toyed with Bonavena through the early rounds, circling his lumbering opponent and stabbing him with jolting lefts. Oscar, a 6-to-1 underdog, kept wading in, pounding away...
Crunching Hook. Aware that he was way ahead on points, Ali coasted through the late rounds until a few of the fans began booing and filing out of the Garden. They should have stayed. In the final round, Ali caught Oscar with a crunching left hook to the jaw that sent the Argentine to the canvas. Bonavena struggled up at the count of eight, and Ali decked him again. At that point, Bonavena's corner tossed in the towel. No one saw it, and Oscar wobbled to his feet to be dropped again by an Ali flurry. The three...
...leave was triggered by a birthday. "I had my 50th birthday three months ago−but not without trauma," he confessed. "I realized I have many projects I want to get to, writing books and some semi-autobiographical essays. I want to work in my own framework, make my garden grow...
Another contributing factor was Claiborne's outspoken "discontent with New York. Every time I pass a sledgehammer, I think how much I want to leave here." He plans to retire to his home in East Hampton, but not only to write and garden. His hobby is cooking...