Word: florally
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From his earliest veils, Louis progressed to more complicated "floral" patterns, then to what many admirers consider his most sophisticated works. These are known as Louis' "unfurleds": irregular zebra stripes placed in such a way that they seem to almost tear the canvas apart with their decisiveness. In the 1960s, he turned to narrow, bold, successive rows of vertical stripes. Just before he died, Louis began to stretch and frame his canvases so that the stripes ran diagonally, sprinting tensely upwards, onwards and off at the corners. Mute and vibrant, they hang stiffly like heraldic banners for some brave...
Into the bar strolled Sir Alec Guinness, black of face and draped in a floral-print dress stuffed with toweling in the bosom. "Excuse my skirt," he said to Elizabeth Taylor as he bellied up to the bar. "Would someone buy me a beer, please? I'm not carrying any cash tonight. I don't know where I could...
...Design Called Crazy. Inevitably, many manufacturers have decided to tap the op-pop scene for bright, youthful ideas. Thayer Coggin, for one, showed tables covered in vinyl with polkadot, floral and zebra patterns. Kroehler, the world's largest manufacturer, held seven conferences with what the company calls "nearlyweds" (ages 18 to 22), concluded that they wanted their homes to look as unlike their parents' homes as possible. For them, Kroehler has developed its "In Group" line: sofas and settees covered in shiny vinyl, chairs and chaises longues in velvet and wide-ribbed corduroy patterned with polka dots, scrolls...
...whatever name, the goal is the same: to sneak out in the dead of night and shroud the victim's house from chimney pot to privet hedge with yard upon yard of toilet paper, preferably the tinted or floral varieties. The antic is performed by boys or girls, but always in pairs or a group. As Sue Simms, 18, a senior at Silver Spring, Md.'s Montgomery Blair High School, points out, "You need someone on the other side of the tree in order to fling the dwindling roll back and forth." And there are rules as well...
...estimated $1.6 billion. Occupancy in leading Puerto Rico hotels fell 25% below normal; some Miami Beach hotels, shops and restaurants were half empty. American Express reported a sharp drop in travel bookings for the fall and winter. California flower growers, source of a quarter of the nation's floral supply, and dependent on air freight to deliver their fragile crop, lost $1,000,000 a week in sales to out-of-state customers...