Word: ferne
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Panicked, the girls decide to return her to her bed and make it look like she has been raped. In the process, the school outcast Fern Mayo (newcomer Judy Evans Greer) stops by Liz's house and unwittingly overhears the girls discussing the murder. But the unflappable Courtney Shayne (Rose McGowan) makes Fern a deal she can't refuse: instant popularity in return for her silence. Thus Courtney creates the vivacious "Vylette" as Fern's alter-ego, and her homely self is cast aside...
What happened? Where have all the flowers gone? Whither the revolution? Is it all just fern bars and stock options, breast implants and cappuccino frappes from here till eternity? Well, it's kind of like your parents (whom, thankfully, you did not kill, despite Jerry Rubin's urgings) tried to tell you: if you weren't so damned self-absorbed, you might learn something...
That may be why he received lukewarm support from big department stores. "Retailers are part of the blame," explains Fern Mallis, head of the Council of Fashion Designers of America. "They come and love Isaac, but then don't give him the support and energy in the stores that he needs to make it work...
High over the winding Eel River, wooded hills stretch to the Pacific Ocean. The mist rolls in, blanketing the valley below. On the forest floor, a tiny white butterfly alights on a fiddlehead fern. And from the canopy of a giant redwood, a voice crackles over the walkie-talkie. "I'm running out of power," it says, with a note of urgency. "Can you send up another cell-phone battery...
...accurate--and only a fool would attempt to parse another person's marriage--but it makes a poor premise for poetry. Lyric poems draw their energy from an active voice discussing the life choices, good or bad, it has made. Hughes portrays himself as a fern in a hurricane beyond his control. He gives only one poem, Dreamers, to the woman who broke up his marriage to Plath. In it he writes: "The Fable she carried/ Requisitioned you and me and her,/ Puppets for its performance." Who wants to read about puppets? Hughes' insistence that he was only...