Word: tree
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...tourist on Mexico City's tree-lined Calle Amberes in the Zona Rosa shopping district might wonder if he is suffering from the mile-high altitude. There at No. 9 is a brand-new Cartier boutique, its windows agleam with shiny gold jewelry, trendy tank watches and glistening leather goods. But only eight doors away, at No. 15-C, is another Cartier, its windows also agleam with shiny gold jewelry, trendy tank watches and glistening leather goods. What is going on? The answer is that No. 15-C is a phony Cartier, and that No. 9 is the real...
Since his early days, Klein has enjoyed a varied, successful show biz career. He has done Broadway: first, a small part in The Apple Tree; his latest, the lead role and a Tony nomination in Neil Simon's They're Playing Our Song. He has made records; out-of-print classics like Mind over Matter and Child of the Fifties and, upcoming, an all music and song collection for Casablanca (to be followed by more comedy discs). He is oft-seen on television: HBO shows, Johnny Carson, and two NBC specials this fall, with guests Rodney Dangerfield, Jane Curtin, Judd...
...rare occasion on which he shared a platform with the head of his ticket, Ronald Reagan. Bush's voice was reedier than usual, his introductory praise of Reagan awkwardly effusive, his applause during Reagan's speech a shade overeager. Then a man sitting in a tree shouted something that made the crowd in Birmingham, Mich., laugh. A puzzled Reagan announced into an open microphone: "I didn't hear." Like a jack-in-the-box, Bush popped up to cup his hand around Reagan's ear and whisper what the tree sitter had said about Jimmy Carter...
During the lazy decades before the war in Viet Nam spread to Cambodia, now called Kampuchea, mornings in Phnom-Penh began when Buddhist bonzes filed slowly out from their wats (monasteries) in search of food. They proceeded along tree-lined boulevards, past colonial mansions and temples glistening with gold leaf, begging until their silver bowls were filled with rice and fresh mangoes. That usually did not take very long...
...classrooms. It is a portrait, rather than an analysis, and as such, it towers above the warmed-over synthetic fare of Lopez and others. By framing the Crimson quest for self-understanding, the show, in its introspection, rejects myths about Harvard cast upon it and stands, naked, under the tree of knowledge...