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...Switch to Technicolor. Tennis Ace Bjorn Borg, in a blue blazer, no headband, and his love of four years, Rumanian Pro Mariana Simionescu, step outside into the bright sunlight and a cheering crowd of 2,000. Among them are 50 members of the Rumanian National Tennis Federation, who raise flower-bedecked racquets in a ceremonial arch. Kiss, smile, applause. Exeunt the couple in a Swedish Saab. Scene 2-Religious Ceremony. An unruly mob awaits the Borgs' arrival at the Caldarusani Monastery, 25 miles from the capital. Tennis Star Vitas Gerulaitis, arriving on foot, has to fight...
...house-calls--"you can't pull clients into Jamaica Plain"--Hollingsworth spends his time establishing the Institute for Wholistic Living, planned as a center for natural healing that will bring together under one roof experts in "diet, yoga, meditation, massage, herbalism, aura reading, Gestalt and Polarity Therapy, the Bach flower remedies and primal scream, as well as a psychic or two." After that, Hollingsworth hopes to organize a National Guide of Alternative Health Practitioners to "try to put a dent in the American Medical Association's monopoly on healing...
...Death's blade lie many a flower curled...
...good water supply and large hydroelectric-power potential." About a million people inhabit its 9304 square miles; only six states are smaller. The state motto, which by a Supreme Court decision may be taped over on license plates by citizens who object, is "Live Free or Die." State flower: purple lilac; bird: purple finch; tree: white birch. Populated by Indians before the Europeans arrived in the 1600s, New Hampshire became the ninth state to ratify the U.S. Constitution in 1788 and the one that made that document legal. A fifth of the state consists of public parklands, which, along with...
...dozen kinds of flower and plant are faithfully recorded, petal by petal, while the rocks themselves take on the surging, crinkled look of brain coral, providing a dream landscape, almost subaqueous, in malachite green, pink and blue, woven to gether by the twisting trees. A tense springiness seems to run through every shape, visible in the arabesques of a bush no less than in the lashing tail of the lion or the trampling feet of the horse Rakhsh...