Word: bloomed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...invisible to the show's patrons is the hard-nosed business that goes into every new bloom. With 44 million U.S. gardeners spending an estimated $5 billion each year on everything from peat moss to chamois-colored gloves with green thumbs, companies such as Jackson & Perkins and Burpee begin years in advance to cross-fertilize flowers to achieve the blend of color, size and hardiness to captivate this spring's buyer. To produce a new hybrid, employees brush pollen individually onto the pistils of 10,000 roses, consider themselves lucky if three of the resulting 100,000 seedlings...
...change is also under way to tidy up the practice of gardening, make it as simple and antiseptic as picture taking. Begonias now come ready to bloom in individual paperboard containers, geraniums can be bought in plastic bedding boxes that look like oversized ice trays. Both the plant and its cube-shaped root cluster can simply be pulled out of the pots, plopped into the ground. Rose bushes arrive in brand-new aluminum foil containers with plastic bottoms; the backyard gardener simply snaps off the plastic bottom, lowers the container into the ground without ever soiling his hands. Because rose...
...That would be a bloody disaster." Nations have to begin somehow; occasionally just plain good luck comes along to give them a boost. A few years ago, feudal Libya was written off as a hopeless non-nation-until oil was found floating beneath the deserts. Barren Mauritania may yet bloom from the rich iron and phosphate deposits in its crust. Some unlikely nations have been struggling along for many years-little San Marino smack in the middle of Italy, Haiti and the Dominican Republic-and there is not much hope that their situation will improve. On the other hand...
...smoke, he mused: "At every concert I leave a lot to the moment. I must have the unexpected, the unforeseen. I want to risk, to dare. I want to be surprised by what comes out. I want to enjoy it more than the audience. That way the music can bloom anew. It's like making love. The act is always the same, but each time it's different...
Cross-Pollination. What it all amounts to, says Director Peter Hall, with only slight understatement, is "a tremendous explosion in the British theater." Never has the theater there been, as Peter O'Toole says, so "damn healthy." "It is," agrees Claire Bloom, "the most exciting theater in the world"-as the following color pages show. Fifty-one productions are thriving in the London West End and off-West End. Two government-subsidized groups, the Royal Shakespeare Company and the National Theater, are turning away customers, and almost any provincial town worth its name has its own repertory company playing...