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...funny if my next show was lousy?" Shower succeeded in reducing its stars (Janis Paige, John Raitt, Betty Grable) to micrometeor magnitude, often seemed an accidental parody of an early '30s movie musical, lacking only the traditional aerial views of chorus girls sprawling in living floral patterns. Jokes and Chrysler commercials sometimes had interchangeable parts. Cooed Barbara Nichols, playing a scrub girl in a carwash emporium: "Gee, isn't he [Raitt] cute! He can put his Imperial on my wash rack any time!" Jack Benny had the embarrassed air of one trapped in a cold Shower that could...
...nations battle overseas, The missiles scorch, the tanks advance, While we continue at our ease With cattle-show and floral dance. Great powers must come To frightful doom: Only the impotent but gay Can hope to face the world today...
...artist simply distinguishes his untitled works as landscapes, seascapes or floral studies, leaving articulation to his brush and the imagination. Often it is difficult to determine which fit even these broad categories, as Rosenborg's work, neither non-objective nor allegorical, alludes mystically to nature as a vehicle alone. Brilliant bouquets of color, often straight from the tube, alternate with misty formations of warm, mellow light. Seldom is any linear element whatsoever introduced. Rosenborg's variations on a theme of color harmonies are as much the point as his eulogy of nature...
...Listened quite patiently as Democrat Paul Douglas, whose home state of Illinois ranks No. 1 in corn production, urged a congressional joint resolution "designating the golden corn tassel as the floral emblem of the U.S." In support of his proposal-duly referred to James O. Eastland's Judiciary Committee-Douglas read a sort of poem written by the late Edna Dean Proctor...
...thousands of U.S. gardeners, the best reading of the winter comes when the postman delivers the spring catalogue of Jackson & Perkins Co., the world's biggest rose growers. This spring the J. & P. catalogue displayed more than 120 different varieties of roses in all floral colors except blue, breathlessly described them in the rosiest of prose. Among the new roses to dream over were Aida ("displays the same majestic grandeur and dark beauty as its namesake"), Golden Fleece ("performs with all the grace and beauty of a flirting ballerina") and Spartan ("no race of men ever existed as strong...