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With Brillo, Heinz and Campbell Soup boxes piled to the ceiling. Warhol last spring turned the gallery into a supermarket. This season it looks more like a florist's. One hundred canvases, popping with big blossoms in every conceivable color, cover Castelli's walls. Through...
...depth of tone. In these poems, written in the last seven years of his life, he lovingly and lingeringly catalogues objects: surf and "the falling of small waters," fields and abandoned farms, vireos, warblers and "the heron's hieratic fishing," the greenhouses and roses of his florist father remembered from his Michigan boyhood. Musical in themselves, these flashing descriptions are presented almost brusquely, so that they may seem at first to be curiously opaque and lacking in resonance...
...propagating plants for the outdoor garden instead of buying them, of cutting a spray of forsythia in midwinter and "forcing" it into a golden harbinger of spring, of watching a child's pride in his own waist-high plantation, and, not least, of dropping into a city florist's from time to time to check up on the prices. For less than $20, a greenhouse owner can buy enough seedlings to keep his house chrysanthemumed all winter long...
There was a two-wheeled bicycle, a box marked "John's Toys-N Street," pink and blue covered parakeet cages, hatboxes, a generous supply of French wines, and a bulging briefcase bearing the initials J.F.K. A maid arrived, carrying an armload of White House guidebooks. A Washington florist delivered yellow chrysanthemums. Then, just after 1 p.m., a black White House limousine arrived, and out stepped Jackie, Caroline and John Jr. Accompanying them were Bobby and Ethel Kennedy, who chatted for half an hour, then left Jackie smiling at the front door...
Considering the expense involved, truck buyers are a lot fussier about what they buy than car buyers, and they get results faster. Ford and Chevy offer 1,000 different variations, and almost every truck turns out to be custom-made. G.M.C. dutifully mixed batches of lavender paint until a florist customer was satisfied, and has bowed to truck owners' new efforts to keep drivers comfortable by putting in reading lamps over adjustable bunks in sleeper cabs. White's Autocar division recently put in a seat with 16 different adjustments that give the driver a choice...