Word: blossomer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...have thought) unconscious "growth" of, say, the bud-like forms at the top of La Primavera. This is a tall square column, 9-10 feet tall with cut-out semi-circles of wood interlocked in a restrained yet powerful abstraction of spring. It seems like a plant about to blossom, with tremendous energy beneath the surface of a green bud--enough to create a flower...
...that these photographs are out on exhibit, they are resplendent and surprising. Sohier's Umbrellas are a most amazing shape: they explode overhead, blossom underfoot, sprout and spring, collapse...
...Kremlin dinner during which he delivered a speech in defense of dtente, Party Chief Leonid Brezhnev endorsed the Indian state of emergency ("Your government's actions against internal and external reaction met full understanding in the U.S.S.R.") and concluded: "May the tree of Soviet-Indian friendship strengthen and blossom." In reply, Mrs. Gandhi assured her hosts that Indo-Soviet cooperation was "a striking example of how two peoples with different political ideologies and socioeconomic structures can work together for mutual welfare and progress...
...grandest new blossom of baseball's most stimulating April ever was Yankee Stadium, a glowing renovation of the most famous, nostalgia-imbued house of sweat in America. Only New Orleans' Superdome, completed last year, cost more ($173 million); Seattle's "Kingdome," which opened this month, was a mere $60 million. Of course, teams domiciled in these weatherproof bubbles never have to worry about slipping in the rain, losing fly balls in the smog, getting grass stains on their pants or suffering other terrestrial indignities...
...bright orange and blue blossom of the bird-of-paradise plant sways gently in the breeze. Moistened by a wintry rain, the leaves of an azalea shed pearls of water. Except for the tile mosaic of a skull that lies in their midst, the cluster of plants looks like just another pretty California backyard garden. In fact, the attractive foliage masks the sinister nature of the display. Located in a walled courtyard outside the pediatrics clinic at the Kaiser-Permanente Medical Center in Fontana, Calif., the garden consists of 20 plants, all of them popular -and poisonous...