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After Frates, the Dartmouth lineup is: Captain Bruce MacDonald, Harvey Bloom, Hank Milton, Buck Latimore, Steve Jonas, and Chap Jacobus...
...bowls of hammered brass ($250), hairbrushes that cost more than $200, and a child's battery-operated Mercedes-Benz for only $400 were all on sale last week along swank Rodeo Drive in California's Beverly Hills. But the most symbolic luxury item that is putting the bloom on the Hollywood boom is the mink-covered TV set ($950). TV has become the star of a new Hollywood, and the movies merely a supporting player. Items: ¶A single Hollywood TV show, NBC's daily Matinee Theater, hires 2,400 actors a year for speaking parts...
...jagged, shrieking climaxes, lapses in midphrase into sudden silences that form a weird counterpoint to sound. Most listeners will be more attracted to Webern's songs, based on such idyllic poems as Goethe's The Perfect Match ("A flowerbell blossomed early from the ground in lovely bloom...
...strokes, Tessai turned his white paper into a water-lily-strewn waterway and sky; at the same time his forceful brushwork created a protomodern example for much that in Western painting passes for abstract expressionism. Looking at these last works, one Japanese critic mused: "They are like flowers that bloom on an aged plum tree." Then he exclaimed in admiration: "Tessai became a dragon...
...hunt for new roses (and $1,800,000 on ads and other promotion), employs a top geneticist, Eugene S. Boerner, as his chief hybridizer. Annually Boerner makes 10,000 hand pollinations, getting up to ten tiny seeds from each crossing. From some 250,000 plants nursed along to the bloom stage, less than half a dozen new ones are selected each year to go into J. & P.'s catalogue. A single rose may cost $50,000 to develop, but royalties on a single rose have hit $500,000, so, says Perkins, "it's well worth...