Word: blossomer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Matina Horner took on the presidency two years ago with a glittering vision of Radcliffe as it might be, the best of both worlds--a women's school that gives its students protection, strength and room to blossom in this sexist world, but also a co-ed school, with its obvious social, emotional and educational advantages. Opponents of merger feel that it is necessary to have the protection Radcliffe affords, to have an advocate for women's rights and a focus to keep them from being isolated within the male university. Harvard has shown so little concern for women...
...Buster and Billie, it is a pretty sure bet that Billie is going to meet the most popular boy in school. Indeed, Buster soon asks her out and has his way with her-privately, to be sure-in the front seat of the family pickup. Romance and Billie blossom, more or less in that order. The pair pass a great deal of time making love, going skinny-dipping and observing the photogenic glories of nature, while Buster's buddies become increasingly irked. The love affair violates the tenets of what the film makers see as ingrained redneck bigotry, swinishness...
...apiece at the supermarket. To put some of the comfort back into apple consumption, two young California entrepreneurs are providing a rent-a-tree service that allows city dwellers to raise all the fruit they can possibly eat and also enjoy the pristine pleasures of watching trees grow, blossom and yield...
...receive redwood plaques with their names on them to hang on their rented trunks. They have full sitting, picking, picnicking and climbing rights, but are spared all the tiresome chores of spraying, propping and pruning. Moreover, as a number of young Bay Area couples discovered during the local apple blossom festival last April, there can be more to sitting under an apple tree than discovering the law of gravity...
...father, Bo Tucker, realized he had a star in the house when Tanya was eight. Ever since, he has lived off a series of construction jobs round the Southwest wherever he thought Tanya's career might blossom. "It's because of my father's blood and guts that we are where we are today," she says. It is not clear whether "we" is a superstar's first-person plural or an indication that Tanya cannot yet separate her identity from that of her close-knit clan...