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...twilight hours grow dimmer with every passing December afternoon, as the last brown leaves cling tenaciously, forlorn, on the branches of Cambridge's flora...
...would call the actor's private life boring, and Mastroianni would not call it private. He has been married to the indulgent Flora for 37 years; their daughter Barbara is 35. But then there is Chiara, his 15-year-old daughter by Actress Catherine Deneuve. Ask him about his limitations, and you get the shrug. "Perhaps I don't be so faithful," he says. "Actors make promises, and they don't keep promises. This infantile nature follows us. Whoever lives with an actor has to accept that he needs to live a little in his fantasies...
That progress encompasses both flora and fauna. Inside the boundaries of the monument, where by law people are not allowed to assist regeneration, a mammalian equivalent of the bulldozer has been the pocket gopher. Colonies of these tiny industrious burrowers have helped mix the nutrient-poor ash and pumice with rich, pre-eruptive soil, creating a more hospitable turf for windblown seeds. Deer mice, ants and beetles have also assisted in the regeneration of the soil. Flowering lupine, with root nodules that convert nitrogen into compounds necessary for plant growth, has seized a foothold on the pumice plain, along with...
...buzzed through the roadside flora I was given over to thought about the human condition. Here in Russia these teeming hordes were referred to as "the masses;" in the U.S., the same people would be called "the viewing public." But were they not, in fact, the same? Were not Russians and Americans cut from the same cloth? Were they not, in the end, both human...
...Flora Houn '87, a committee member, said the committee had invited one or two "light and happy" speakers before talking to Dukakis...