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Ikebana has been entwined in Buddhism almost since the religion was introduced to Japan in the mid-6th century; it started with floral offerings laid at the altars. Sofu has made it a highly secular art and brought it into the age of abstract expressionism. His Grass Moon school has gone beyond the simple (but stunning) classical ikebana arrangements of a bent twig and a dewy blossom arrayed in a water vase or a bamboo tube. In containers that may be ceramic sculptures or Chinese wine kegs, Sofu will blend the blooms with shells, stones, iron, leaves, driftwood, dried grass...
...typical house is decorated with colonial furniture, plastic fruit, fluffy floral armchairs, commercial and authentic Indian crafts. The television forms the pulpit of the living room: children crowd around to absorb its technicolor wisdom. In the driveway is a small car, an old Honda Super Hawk; bicycles lie on the back lawn, dogs mope around the fear porch. Raymond Moore and his wife bake some bread in the kitchen. Mrs. Moore, looking fresh, models tight blue jeans and a printed t-shirt. A girl short-cuts through the back yard filled with dogs, wearing a "Smoke Colombian" t-shirt...
...heat outside the mansion gates. Two people were killed when a drunken driver plowed into the crowd. After the funeral at Graceland, a cortege of 16 white Cadillacs led a slow procession down Elvis Presley Boulevard to the cemetery. There the lawn was banked with some 2,200 floral tributes - an imperial crown of golden mums, hortisculptured hound-dogs and guitars, sunflowers in wine bottles. Memphis ran out of flowers; reinforcements were sent in from California and Colorado...
...Zahedi's Valentine's Night bash. The guest of honor: Pop Artist Andy Warhol, who earlier in the day had met President Carter at the White House. "Terrific, terrific," was Warhol's response to everything, including the centerpiece on the red satin tablecloth: a 3-ft. floral heart adorned with an oversized Campbell's Soup...
YVES SAINT LAURENT came on with a romantic version of his tough-chic man-tailored pantsuits, followed by a new rendering of his 1976 peasant-Gypsy-Spanish-Russian look. This time he used delicate Indian prints, floral patterns and filmy mousselines-inspired, it was said, by Renoir (who was not exactly inspired by peasants). Y.S.L. remained the superstar...