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...designers and painters lack inventive power and merely imitate nature or the creation of others." Driven by this distaste for the conventional, Georgia began experimenting with shapes and colors that had nothing to do with subject. Or, shifting from the abstract to the representational, she would paint a single flower again and again to find new facets of truth. These early experiments became the preoccupation of a lifetime. She could turn out a single swooping bird, a tumbling abstract landscape or a pair of solitary antlers planted in the desert (see color), but in everything she did she pared reality...
Gongs clanged and drums rumbled. Chief of State Liu Shao-chi and Premier Chou En-lai were on hand at the airport. On the trip into the city, a roaring crowd of half a million (said the Red radio) tossed flower petals. Lampposts were festooned with bunting, and at Peking's Gate of Heavenly Peace colored balloons floated skyward trailing slogans of greetings. It was just about the biggest and gaudiest welcome Peking had organized for any visitor ever-including the 1959 one for Nikita Khrushchev...
...Annie Sullivan; The Best Man, though superficial in characterization, provides a vivid theatrical look at campaigning politicians. Three musicals remain spicy and satisfying: West Side Story, Leonard Bernstein's brassy, big-city, 20th century Romeo and Juliet; Fiorello!, the nostalgic story of New York City's Little Flower; and Bye Bye Birdie, an enjoyable spoof of the rock-'n'-roll craze...
...Named for the Kennedy's 2 ^-year-old daughter; not to be confused with the Presidential jet Columbine III, named for the official flower of Colorado, Mamie Eisenhower's home state...
...baby wild boars run wild through a military ball and gets the requisite licking. This imposition of authority she neatly overcomes by imagining her tormentor sitting on the toilet. More whippings, and she snaps her father's riding crop in two, tries to brain him with a flower pot. The battle continues in Germany after the war. Her father is now a general in command of a force of French occupation troops, so she naturally sews his medals to the seat of his pants. Living in a near-demented world of make-believe, she grows to adulthood near crazy...