Word: asterism
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Recognizing this, the Rochbergs extracted the China Aster episode as the centerpiece of their opera. China's story, related by one of the novel's characters as a cautionary tale, is onedimensional: pressed by a friend to take a $1,000 loan, China, a candlemaker, invests it unwisely, goes broke and dies. This essentially is the plot of the opera, and it is not strong enough to support an evening of musical theater. It is merely the old pay-the-rent melodrama, not real drama...
...Sunbelt's shiniest jewel. New hotels and office towers are rising in Miami, and once sleepy towns near by are growing skylines of their own. The Rolls-Royces still roll royally along Palm Beach's Worth Avenue, and Fort Lauderdale is, as ever, where boy meets girl every aster vacation...
...Milwaukee suburb, let plant life take its course when he moved into a house on 2½ acres in the town's Sun Shadows West subdivision. Hagar put in some wild Wisconsin prairie grass and let nature do the rest. The result: knee-high waves of goldenrod, aster, orchard grass and fleabane. Instead of a sputtering power mower, meadow larks, foxes and pheasants roam the Hagar yard...
...Okay." So the furriers take the aster-cosmonauts on a long journey, through many of Mars's famed canals, until they arrive at a huge palace. They enter through a gate and pass through a seemingly endless succession of rooms, each grander and more beautiful than the last. Finally they enter the last room, the grandest of all--it's about 50 yards long, with jewel-encrusted walls and solid gold floors. At the end of the room, sits another hairy little man with a large hypodermic needle attached to the top of his head...
...make sure that the breathing spell for the North does not become a dis aster for the South, U.S. pilots are relentlessly attacking the Communist convoys. Last week, in fact, they flew the largest number of sorties against the North so far this year...