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...Wash-air (a Japanese expression urging enthusiasm). They also practiced karate. "To remain passive in the face of escalating police brutality is foolish and degrading," said David Baker, a Committee leader from Detroit, who was leading the practice. "The advice used to be that you should give police a flower and say 'Hello, brother.' But it didn't stop the brutality, and people continued to get hurt...
...just before his death make most admirable vehicles for the band: locomotive-paced The Intimacy of the Blues, which perfectly brings out its elegant, insinuating sound; Charpoy, a perking bounce; and Blood Count, a sinuous, sensitive ballad, with a Johnny Hodges alto solo, in the same vein as Passion Flower. Duke pays his respects with a pensive, if plush, rendition of Lotus Blossom, Strayhorn's own favorite...
OGUNQUIT, ME., Playhouse. A spinsterish dental nurse turns bewitching temptress in Abe Burrows' Cactus Flower...
...accident or design, man seems de ermined to upset the delicate balance of nature in Florida. The water hyacinth, imported by a flower lover in 1884, has clogged canals all over the southern end of the peninsula. Clearing operations cost more than $1,000,000 annually. The 30-in. Bufo toad (Bufo marinus), introduced to the Miami area in the 1950s to eat insects, now feeds on the young of native toads, and hundreds of dogs have died after biting into the Bufo's poisonous neck sacks...
Hippiedom may be as dead as the Hupmobile, but you'd never know it from the movies. Hollywood has scheduled for release a flock of new films that mock, parody, praise or exploit the life of the flower children...