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...Angela is the bride, Grainne has to be the groom. I debate whether I should play flower girl, priest or reporter until Grainne ties a white ribbon around my neck and proclaims it the perfect priest’s collar. With a borrowed Bible in hand, I’m ready...
...Tuesday, the 51 Democrats secured a conference room just across from the hotel's Gushers Lounge, where the national media would later enjoy karaoke night. The meeting room was filled with flower arrangements, cookie baskets, balloons, pizza and of course barbecue, all sent by Democrats from around the country. By the next day, the renegade Democrats had drafted a statement signed by not only the 51 but also a 52nd member, from an undisclosed location. Perhaps a nicer hotel...
Winchester is an extraordinarily graceful writer. He may be the world's greatest crafter of smooth transitions, and he has the good sense never to resist an irresistible digression. His footnotes feature, among other gems, cameos by the world's largest flower (the yard-wide Rafflesia arnoldii) and the world's longest book (the Javanese Book of Kings, 6 million words long). Above all, Winchester is delightfully alert to history's ironies and synchronicities. The destruction of Krakatoa occurred just as the global net of telegraph cables--the Victorian version of the Internet--was being completed, and the disaster became...
Putting plants and flowers inside pots has traditionally been the tactic of cooped-up urban dwellers, who have to rely on window boxes to express their inner farmer. But even people with proper backyards are now keeping their gardens contained. So-called container gardening is growing at almost 20% annually, twice the rate of gardening sales overall. Gardening in pots is popular because of its ease: a whole vegetable or flower garden can be designed and planted in an afternoon, and pots require less weeding than conventional flower beds. The pots are also coming in increasingly bold and varied styles...
...retarded child (it had a perfectly good revival in 1985 starring Stockard Channing and Jim Dale), but its brutally unsentimental treatment of a touchy subject, the experiments in narrative and a galvanizing performance by comedian Eddie Izzard give it the immediacy of a spring thunderstorm. And a revival of Flower Drum Song earlier this season gave that politically incorrect Rodgers and Hammerstein musical about Chinese Americans a smart and satisfying rewrite (not the way people remembered it; the show closed...