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...where arrangements are rigorously judged, “Art in Bloom” opens the door to all sorts of bold floral arrangements. In one of the most effective arrangements, created by Susan Kaplan of the Beth Shalom Garden Club, three thick, pitch-black palm spades interspersed with pink bird-of-paradise form a sharp, pyramid-like construction. The angles echo the shape of Alexander Archipenko’s sculpture “Turning Torso,” a simple abstracted nude in blue bronze...
...guide to jail by accident. He is arrested countless times, at least once without realizing he is under arrest for several days. He is transported by a magical displaced Italian who has “not much more than the tendons and skin and astonishment of a baby bird,” an “immense African wife” and the ability to curse at everything. The Small Boys’ Unit turns out to be Taylor’s bodyguards, a corps of orphaned boys with machine guns. The question of whether Johnson actually reaches Taylor becomes...
Look! Up in the sky! It’s a bird! It’s a plane...
With her ruddy skin, pulpy bosom and self-abasing zinger wit, she's so--well, so very English. One glance at Houston's own Renee Zellweger, and all anxiety about the casting of an American as Britain's favorite wounded bird of the '90s vanishes. (Hey, if Vivien Leigh could play Scarlett O'Hara...) She fits in, and stands out, perfectly. And as the plot of Bridget Jones's Diary ripens, and two handsome men--rapacious Daniel Cleaver (Hugh Grant) and dull Mark Darcy (Colin Firth)--tumble vagrantly into her heart, Zellweger reveals, as in a soul's striptease, Bridget...
...form of segregation that denies those people from being able to fully participate in the world of music. I read an interview of Charlie Parker in Vanity Fair. The interviewer asked him why he didn’t like the word “Bop.” Bird [Parker] probably winced at the word. He asked him what would he like people to call it? Bird said, simply music. So now, you’re not just relegated to these little joints where the acoustics are bad, pianos are bad, just a lot of negative stuff goes...