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...that the mother secretly consults a seer. The seer predicts that Peter and Paul will fight with each other in life as they have already done in their mother's womb. And so it turns out. When they grow up, both brothers fall in love with the lovely Flora, and she with them. This impasse is climaxed and, in a way, resolved in a hallucinatory scene in which Flora passes inward through their eyes until she penetrates their souls. Once inside their secret selves she finds them-identical...
...show promise will be given preferential admission if they apply to the same college after high school graduation. Integrated Seagulls. The main challenge to teachers is to get the youngsters to care about learning. "They are the D-minus crowd," says Western Washington's Dr. Charles J. Flora, "the kids who say to themselves, 'Hell, I could do it if I wanted to, but who wants to?' " That is no idle boast for many. The IQs in the Washington project average 118, for example, and the kids cannot be conned by condescension. Indeed, most of them have...
...late show, Liza Minnelli, 21, found her own rainbow. Poised, but grinning gleefully, she stood before a packed ballroom at Manhattan's Hotel Astor to accept the American Theater Wing's "Tony" award as the season's best musical actress for her Broadway debut in Flora, the Red Menace, a tepid comedy she heats up with a dramatic voice that brings memories of Garland yet is still her own. Her mother Judy couldn't attend; she was at the Neuropsychiatric Institute of the U.C.L.A. Medical Center in Los Angeles, recovering from what friends said...
Chernoff found that an experimental compound, cyclobutadiene, was sprayed on Yard flora last Tuesday and Wednesday. "In small amounts this substance can cause characteristic disturbances of physical and mental functions," he explained. "It is not terribly dangerous, but the results can be alarming...
...attempt to re-create a period must be laved in memory and affection, but Flora looks down on rather than at the '30s. The show's parodies of parlor-pink dance epics, and the "knock knock" pun craze are too self-consciously silly to be funny. A tune-drab, dance-starved, lead-witted musical is scarcely the dream debut for a star, but Liza Minnelli puts vocal muscle and wistful appeal into her spindling role. She has the wide famished eyes of a waif, that vulnerable little-child look of hunger and wonder. Like her mother,Judy Garland...