Word: blossoms
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Piece. Hollywood lies light-years distant from Indiana's papaw country, but Reporter Ross's collection successfully encompasses both. In The Yellow Bus, she recounts a New York visit of the Bean Blossom Township High School's 1960 senior class - a narrative so coldly and devastatingly honest that, even today, at least one Bean Blossom faculty member cannot think about it without getting mad. In Picture, she exhaustively tracks the course of John Huston's film, The Red Badge of Courage, from conception to box office - where it flopped. After that dissection, doors slammed shut...
Notwithstanding their fears, the Alaskans were also exuding confidence. To many, the earthquake was a blessing in disguise: an opportunity to rebuild the state, a chance to tear down the rest of the antiquated and otherwise unsuitable structures in the towns and to create modern cities that could blossom in a fresh and viable economy. "The history of areas like this," said Anchorage Banker Elmer Rasmuson, "is that they rebuild and get much better than they were before. I'm satisfied that we have the basic soundness on which to rebuild in a more modern fashion. This...
...after all, acting as official White House hostess at 16 can be slightly overwhelming. So Luci Barnes Johnson primped nervously as she prepared for an East Room musicale by the Boston Symphony Orchestra. But she let it all happen naturally, and the result was as fresh as a cherry blossom. "I don't really realize that I am a President's daughter," she told reporters, "and that I represent American youth. If I did, I would go out of my mind." It is best to be yourself, she went on, even if you "sometimes make mistakes...
...presidential palace, where he had been hiding since the French put him back in power, Autocrat Mba promised a thorough investigation. But it took no board of inquiry to conclude that Mba and the French have only themselves to blame for allowing "sterile agitation" to blossom into fecund antigovernment, anti-French feeling. It may be a long time before French troops dare pull out of Gabon...
This grotesque tale of a happy marriage has the unsettling effect on a reader of a stop-motion film, in which otherwise familiar flowers bud, blossom and decay in a few shallow breaths of a viewer's time...