Word: blossoms
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...story called Green Thoughts, for instance, a flower fancier is devoured by his pet orchid and converted into a huge blossom in his own likeness. In his new shape, he is recognized by a resentful nephew, and efficiently hacked to pieces by the lout, who rather enjoys the flower's screams. In Thus I Refute Beelzy, a father refuses to believe his six-year-old son's story that he has a secret friend named Mr. Beelzy, who won't let anybody hurt him ("He said he'd come like a lion, with wings...
...years. To replace Kiki and his other Montparnasse models, he had called in the peasant girls from around his present-day home in Southern France. Their curves had the same healthy abundance, their flesh the same pearly hue. Interspersed among the show's buxom nudes were blossom-filled landscapes, luminous still lifes. These are strictly change of pace. "When I paint a nude," says Kisling, "I hunger to paint a landscape; when I paint a landscape, I hunger to paint a bunch of flowers." But he admits that his "grand passion" in life is "the women...
...musical. The Whirl of the World (1913) was an immediate success, and at 26 he was already established as a full-time composer. With production-line efficiency, he turned out 78 more operettas, including The Student Prince (which once had nine road companies going simultaneously), The Desert Song, Blossom Time and The New Moon. His lush, middlebrow tunes ranged from rousing ballads (StoutHearted Men) to glowing sentiment (When I Grow Too Old to Dream) to this year's jukebox favorite Zing Zing, Zoom Zoom, but the standard favorites were the coyly romantic Wanting You, Lover Come Back...
...romance. She loses $10,000 to Stephen McNally, owner of a gambling casino, who offers to swap her I.O.U. for a summer of tutoring for his little girl (Gigi Perreau). Linda reluctantly agrees, protesting so much that it takes no cinema connoisseur to see that her annoyance will soon blossom into love...
...listened as Big Brother pointed out every change in color, explaining which gases and rays were being released. They saw the atomic cloud grow and blossom into the familiar mushroom shape.* When the cloud reached its full height and the dust began to settle, the troops were checked for radioactivity and climbed back into their trucks. The mushroom top broke away and passed under the sun, blotting it out. The trucks rolled forward into the haze and the sour smell of burned cacti and Joshua trees...