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...Paris' Bois de Boulogne. He paused to stare reflectively at a lush hydrangea bush, then hurried on to pick up a dead limb, a handful of dead leaves and a piece of old oak bark. To startled park gardeners an official explained: "That gentleman is a famous Japanese flower arranger, Monsieur Sofu...
...afternoon the results of visiting Flower Arranger Sofu's harvest were ready for display in Paris' Bagatelle chateau. Withered leaves on a dead branch suspended from the ceiling had become a mobile titled Dance of the Dying Leaves; tiger lilies, hydrangeas and irises blended into a scarlet-and-gold Japanese Landscape; a moss-covered oak branch was part of a tableau, On the Edge of the Lake...
Picasso of Flowers. Such works have made Sofu Teshigahara, 54, "the Picasso of flowers" in his native Japan. Sofu has broken all the rules of the centuries-old flower-arranging art known as ikebana. His innovations leave Japanese critics torn between a fear that ikebana is getting its death blow and admiration for a technique which, commented a leading Japanese art critic, "boggles the eyes and stuns the senses...
...measures, the number of hefty Amazons armed with Tommy guns, and the general attitude, "ask no questions and expect no answers." Headed westward again, Nehru stopped off at Leningrad. There, soon after his arrival, an Indian correspondent wearing a Gandhi cap was mistaken for Nehru and overwhelmed by a flower-brandishing mob who almost trampled him to death trying to kiss him. But there were no Indian newsmen around when Nehru got his ace view of the week: a peek at a Soviet atomic center...
...alive) to the downright distasteful (Olive turns out to be a nymphomaniac who believes that variety is the spice of love). But by novel's end, Jacy has found a Florister's one true love, the theater. A Book-of-the-Month Club choice for July, The Flower Girls sprouts eccentrics, melodrama, theater lore, subplots, flashbacks, deaths, alarums and excursions with engaging, old-fashioned abandon. Anyone who plans to while away a lazy summer afternoon with its 629 pages would do well to string up two hammocks, one for himself and another for the book...