Word: chrysanthemumed
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...which, as in other countries, is often related to conflicting demands posed by careers and marriage. She is also no stranger to stories involving the Japanese royal family, having contributed to our coverage in 1990 of the wedding of Prince Akishino and of Emperor Akihito's ascension to the Chrysanthemum Throne. While all this background proved to be essential grounding in reporting our story on next week's marriage of Crown Prince Naruhito and former diplomat Masako Owada, it did not quite reach into the, er, heart of the matter. "The topic of most interest to everyone...
That fall, my roommates and I received a chrysanthemum plant from the three men who had lived in our Holworthy suite 25 years before. Their note, written in fountain pen, wished us well and hoped that room 22 would bring us as much happiness as it had brought them. To that day, they were still the best of friends...
...Crimson: Why didn't you go for the big moment at the end of Dream Play, the chrysanthemum...
Canosa: The chrysanthemum opening is supposed to be an orgasm at the end of Dream Play. But to me, the very first thing is she is born into the world, to me the end was like the womb closing back up, sucking her back up. Not about any chrysanthemum opening. No. [With] Dream Play, I'd say, I violated more of the integrity of the text than any other time. Because I didn't tell that story. It came from when I wanted to be a painter in theater, now I think storyteller is something I need...
...Tokyo Rose begins with a typically peppy but odd Parks arrangement of America -- jukebox Charles Ives -- and ends with a tune about baseball (One Home Run) sung in English and Japanese. In between is a chronicle of misunderstanding. Manzanar is about the internment camps of World War II; White Chrysanthemum is the % poignant evocation of the death of a G.I. who spent his waning days building Nissans down South...