Word: fakes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Francisco: What kind of fake flowers were in Merman's room-roses, snapdragons, gladiolas or what? See MODERN LIVING, A Rose Is Not a Rose...
Ethel Merman's hotel room was teeming with magnolias, chrysanthemums and carnations to celebrate her San Francisco opening last week in Gypsy. Though allergic to flowers, Songstress Merman did not sneeze once. The flowers were all fake...
Artificial flowers for allergic actresses are only one use of the U.S.'s flowering bogus-blossom bloom. Imports from Italy and Hong Kong, which manufacture the bulk of the world's fake-flower output, have jumped more than 20 times since 1955. It is now a $50 million-a-year business. Of poor quality in the past, imitation lilacs, rhododendrons, geraniums, magnolias and orchids now look real enough to water-though lilies sometimes come with geranium leaves. Explains one Hong Kong exporter: "Sometimes God's product doesn't look natural enough, so we make hybrids." Some...
Christmastime lovers nuzzle under plastic mistletoe, and brides are pelted with polyethylene orange blossoms. "It's got so that a girl only gets real flowers for her first corsage and at her funeral," says a Wichita florist. Some cemeteries forbid the use of fake flowers, not so much for reasons of taste as because they make it difficult to cut the grass. Other cemeteries have given in, allow plastic wreaths and sprays...
Come Back, Orestes. Young Orestes, in The Return, is not the man his Sophoclean namesake was. Unlike Clytemnestra. his mother has not killed her husband; she has merely taken up with a fake faith healer while her soldier-husband is missing in war. Her house has become a near-brothel and a hangout for all sorts of scurvy types. To Eugenia, the latter-day Electra, hating her mother's vulgarity and unfaithfulness, life is agony. Their violent quarrels have become a way of life, to be ended, Eugenia believes, only when Brother Orestes comes back from the university...