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...tennis shoes can be heard trudging the roof, accompanied by a slight hiss of water. Then he comes down again. "There's hardly any water pressure," he laments, a fact that has been hampering official fire fighters all day. Outside on his patio, an ember alights on a flower and incinerates it. The phone rings. It's his wife. "Yeah," he says. "I have it under control right now, but I'm in trouble. O.K. . . . I'll call you back." He fills a bucket in his basement and heads back to the roof...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Wild Like the Wind | 11/8/1993 | See Source »

...answered. "I was just looking for this flower shop here. I'm fine...

Author: By Peter K. Han, | Title: Bulbs in the 'Hood | 10/7/1993 | See Source »

That, I found out, is the attraction of Brattle Square Florist Shop. It pleases everyone, from the most serious horticulturalist to the flower novice who just wants to see life bloom on his or her desk every day during the cold winter months...

Author: By Peter K. Han, | Title: Bulbs in the 'Hood | 10/7/1993 | See Source »

Harnett's also offers a variety of morewhimsical products, including bottled flower andherb extracts, called tinctures. While most ofthese products don't make specific medicinalclaims, Lannon expressed faith in their powers...

Author: By Jeffrey C. Milder, | Title: Harnett's Health Store Opens | 10/4/1993 | See Source »

...quite right to close the book with this touch of cute domesticity. Let's remember who Katherine Power was and what she did. This was not a flower child caught up some wild afternoon in a robbery. She was found to have in her apartment three rifles, a carbine, a pistol, a shotgun and a huge store of ammunition. She is accused of having fire bombed a National Guard armory. She took part in a bank robbery in which a hero cop, father of nine, was shot dead. This is someone very hard who has now softened -- out of feelings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: From People Power to Polenta | 10/4/1993 | See Source »

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