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...military parade, without the usual ominous big tanks and guns, was whisked out of sight in 13 minutes, the shortest show of muscle in all Soviet May Day history. That other stock skit on such occasions, the staged break of a little girl from the ranks bearing a bouquet to a beaming Stalin, was multiplied tenfold this year. Ten little girls headed up the steps, handed over ten bouquets, one for each Presidium member, carefully showing no favoritism among the new rulers...
...Again in My Home Town-and into her hit songs. Joni also found time while in Chicago for a sentimental visit to Bowen High School. She hugged her old teachers on sight, wept openly when she sang in her old place in the Bowen High mixed chorus, accepted a bouquet of roses, and got kissed on the cheek, on a dare, by a 17-year-old. For a farewell, Joni reached for the microphone and said: "If it can happen to me, it can happen to you -and it's so wonderful I hope it happens three times...
...words" are masonry-like slabs of paint troweled on to canvas. His biggest picture weighs 250 lbs. unframed, and his smallest, something more than a gym-class dumbbell. Each colored slab fits its neighbors as snugly as a stone in a wall. A mound of squarish slabs represents a bouquet; rectangular slabs in horizontal layers stand for a seacoast. De Staël's colors are sumptuous, often set off by solid chunks of coal black which supercharge the canvas in much the same way as Rouault's heavy black outlines...
...unabashedly scratched her bottom during the Haydn or from pure admiration of her musicianship, it was not yet apparent. But after a roof-raising Beethoven Fifth and a racing William Tell, there was no doubt about Gianella's acceptance. While Albert Hall stood and cheered, she took a bouquet and threw it flower by flower at her audience...
...National Board of Review picked a mixed bouquet: The Quiet Man (No. 12 on Variety'?, list of top grossers), High Noon, Limelight, Five Fingers (No. 86), The Snows of Kilimanjaro, The Thief (No. 114), The Bad and the Beautiful, Singin' in the Rain, Above and Beyond, My Son John (a poor grosser, unlisted...