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First to leave their homes were 545 Catholics under the wing of their parish priest, Father Co, who brought with them a ramshackle altar graced by flower-filled vases fashioned out of empty beer cans. "We are happy to get away from the fighting," said Father Co, "but some are sad to leave, especially since now is the time of the rice harvest...
...Enam, the second tale, develops much the same theme. Gemulah, the wife of Gabriel Gamzu, has been transplanted from an ancient land to modern Israel, and begins to wither like a flower torn from the soil. When the moon is full, she speaks in a tongue long dead and sings songs of unearthly beauty-all of this recorded by an unreal, evanescent figure named Ginath...
...coffin the 385 yards from the cathedral to the Rhine, where it was placed aboard a German navy patrol boat for a 20-mile trip upstream to Adenauer's village of Rhondorf. There, in a private hillside cemetery, his body was lowered into a grave alongside the flower-decked ones of his two wives and infant...
Back home in Barcelona after his first unsuccessful foray on Paris, Pablo Picasso in 1902 painted a somber, Blue Period portrait of a woman, barefoot, with child in arms and holding a single bright red flower. At Sotheby's auction house last week, Picasso's down-and-out souvenir, Mother and Child by the Sea, brought the highest price ever paid for a work by a living artist: $532,000, more than double the previous record, also held by Picasso, whose Death of Harlequin sold...
...often accompanies her sister Tina, 18, to the family haunts, most notably Hollywood's Villa Capri and Martoni restaurants, each of which has a "Sinatra family table." Two months ago, she formed her own independent film company, Boots Enterprises, and this fall plans to co-star in The Flower Children with Co-Producer Sal Mineo. She is also writing a book about her father. Title: A Very Gentle Man. Says Nancy: "All my life I've been Frank's daughter, or Tommy's wife, or Frank Jr.'s sister-never myself. I feel...