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...make flower arrangements attached to take-out cartons with goldfish," Levine recalled...
...elderly woman wearing a pastel, flower-print scarf stopped to stare into Woolworth on a busy Monday afternoon and then shook her head sadly and walked away when she realized it was closed...
Winning one inconsequential playoff game in one of thousands of Little Leagues can't compare with winning the World Series. Or can it? For Alex, Ari, Billy, Bo, Chaz, Frankie, Jeff, Jon, Joe, Mark, Sam and Zach, it can. One big yellow flower bloomed in the outfield that day. Daisy? Daffodil? It certainly wasn't a dandelion. Let's hope it's a perennial, even if only in their memory...
Pygmalion is on one level a lightly speculative exercise on social mobility and the potential of human education-the idea that even a flower girl can be transformed into a lady by learning to speak and dress like one. And on this level, the play is a joy to watch, grounding the fairy tale quality of the story with gloriously Shavian wit. But as a drama of human relations, it's much more frustrating and far less palatable than many of the playwright's other works (the fourth act, when done with enough punch, is one of the most brutally...
...friends who were asked by Einhorn to help him dispose of the trunk. The two former girlfriends who ended up in the hospital after trying to break off relationships with Einhorn. One was nearly strangled; the other had a Coke bottle smashed over her head. So much for flower power. The public embodiment of peace and love was in private a monster. Sickened friends spoke of betrayal and wondered if Einhorn had ever cared about anything but Ira. George Keegan: "We were walking down the street together. People who once would come up and hug Ira crossed the street...