Word: blossoming
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...wealthy favor New York City for its comparative safety and social sass. Opulent European boutiques like Celine for French fashions, $1 million-plus apartments like those in the new Museum Tower, and luxury hotels like the Plaza Athenee, which are run for, and often by, the newcomers, continue to blossom in Manhattan. Owners of New York's most fashionable restaurants say that the arrives are influencing American dining habits with their Continental nonchalance. They give a cursory glance at the bottom line on the bill, and seldom practice power lunching and power tripping. On a recent Wednesday, Manhattan's superswank...
...mercilessly cut any song that did not fit its situation. Conversely, he was a great hoarder and tinkerer. Alter just a few bars of Till the Clouds Roll By and presto! it becomes Look for the Silver Lining. Invert the melody, depress the tempo and voila! the Cotton Blossom theme from Show Boat is alchemized into Ol' Man River...
...Letting a hundred flowers blossom," said Chairman Mao, is a sure sign of "a flourishing socialist culture." Interpreting the Chairman's thought anew, with a view toward tourism, China is busily establishing golf courses. Ground was broken last week for one in the Valley of the Ming Tombs, 30 miles from Peking, by Politburo Member Wang Zhen. As Wang, 76, chopped away with a wedge on a slope that will soon sprout Kentucky bluegrass, a controversy was simmering over the selection of the site...
SPRING IN Harvard Yard is unmistakable: trees begin to blossom, students spill out of the libraries to lounge in the sun, and a handful of pro-divestiture activists mount their yearly vigil outside the Faculty Club, inside which the Advisory Committee on Shareholder Responsibility (ACSR) weighs the ethics of Harvard's investments...
...this seems like a flashback to the you-are-what-you-feel 1960s, there is a reason: Arquette, 25, is a flower child come to blossom. The granddaughter of TV Humorist Cliff ("Charley Weaver") Arquette, and daughter of a Second City improv artist and an activist poet, Rosanna played in the mud at Woodstock when she was ten and was taken by her mother on peace marches, her naked body painted STOP THE WAR, KILL NO MORE. After the tenth grade she left school in Chicago and hitchhiked to California. "I just bummed," she told TIME Correspondent Denise Worrell. "Then...