Word: cereus
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...hardly looked as if she had spent 2½ annoying hours in a plane stacked up over Kennedy Airport, only to emerge into the mid-90° steam bath that was Manhattan last week. As cool and beautiful as a nightblooming cereus, French Film Star Catherine Deneuve, 24, was over from Paris for three weeks of filming on The April Fools, a romantic comedy about two sufferers of mal de mariage. And pity the folks dying to show her the town. What with costumers, hairdressers, script girls and the rest, it was almost a week before Socialites Heidi Vanderbilt...
...pulpit ("the largest flower in the world") once in twelve to 20 years, then dies from the enormity of the act. Such exoticism is not for all: said one lady from Rumson. N.J.: "You wouldn't catch me with one of those things. Our night-blooming cereus is good enough...