Word: flowered
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...fashion, as in design, the Latin influence lies largely in shape and color, and styles merge from a variety of separate traditions. From lavish dresses full of movement and mythology, bolero jackets trimmed in antique Spanish beads, toreador pants and an opulent flower at the shoulder, the look is bold, baroque and, for more and more women, irresistible...
Arnold Schoenberg, trying to explain why George Gershwin had been a natural composer, said that a true artist is like an apple tree, and when he feels the need, he bursts into flower without ever thinking about the market price of apples. Conversely, it would seem that an apple tree is a work of art, a rhapsody in green and white. And it grows -- this is the miracle -- from a little brown seed no more than half an inch long, of which there are half a dozen inside every apple core that you throw into the garbage pail...
While eking out a living performing magic and escape acts, Randi kept an eye on the world of the paranormal, which had boomed during the years of the flower children and the counterculture. Then in 1972, two scientists at the Stanford Research Institute (now SRI International) announced that they were testing an Israeli psychic who could apparently cause objects to levitate, spoons to bend and electron beams to change direction. Their subject, Uri Geller, quickly became a celebrity, but Randi, watching him perform, was < unimpressed. "The tricks were very simple," he says. "There was nothing you couldn...
...Mellings in The Good Terrorist, however, Harriet comes to understand her mistakes. Children are a "challenge to destiny", a contract not to be entered into hastily. Lessing makes the point that that the profligate mating of David and Harriet's marriage was as wasteful as the excesses of the flower children...
Roberts even picks up on Picnic's comic elements, though not as well as Marjorie Ingall, who plays the middle-aged next door neighbor. In a play where the word "costume" means jeans or a flower-patterned dress, it should not be surprising that the audience can almost see the powder falling from her grey hair. Though after working with this cast, one might expect her hair to fall...