Word: flourishings
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...left off; Whip Hoxworth (this time played by Heston) returns home to find that his dead grandfather has willed him 85,000 measly acres of Hawaiian soil. Hoxworth promptly heads for French Guiana to steal some pineapples to plant. A lovely Chinese girl (Tina Chen) helps the fruit to flourish, and Hoxworth soon has most of the island on the Dole...
...class was the last flourish of the old clitist Harvard in its pure form," says Mitchell Goodman '45, a codefendant with Doctor Spock in that 1968 draft evasion conspiracy trial. "The Abbott Lawrence Lowell conception of the gentleman-scholar was still taken seriously." Goodman was a scholarship student from public high school in Brooklyn. He was very impressed...
...their natural state. Now, in a youth-oriented age of flowing locks, the artificial hair industry has finally developed "rugs" that not only look real but will stay in place in wind, water or bed. Consequently, more than 2.5 million men now wear toupees, and where hair does not flourish, rug makers...
...replies with wistful optimism, "but we changed our street.' That single exchange is a pretty good indication of Leo the Last's shortcomings. The movie does not so much compress serious social problems as belittle them, then finally resolve them with a whimsical and faintly maudlin flourish...
...seen before. Not only did we have the old-fashioned type of homicide, but we had torrents of political murders (four major assassinations, the Panthers, My Lai) and drug murders. The problem is that these three categories of sixties-style slaughter are sure bets to hold over (and possibly flourish) in this new decade. This month along has given us Augusta, Jackson and Kent State...