Word: flowerings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...even the most cynical, irreverent non-believers. His fasting, like that of the priest in Bresson's film, makes him weaker and weaker; but instead of succumbing to tuberculosis, he develops amnesia. There the parallels end. The rest of the movie carries him through an idyllic romance with a flower-child of the neighborhood--a courtship full of walks through the fields and accompanied by soupy music, much like the middle third of Zeffirelli's Romeo and Juliet. Just as they consumate their love, however, he recovers his memory. He abandons her for his celibate priesthood and she dies...
...politician is like a spring flower: he blossoms, he blooms, and a time comes for him to fade...
Okay, and I admit I'm hard put to tell one Hare Krishna zomboid apart from one another. Okay, and what Journal says sounds sorta wilted flower-powered nice. But in "Perspective" Journal editor Sherman Goldman proceeds to use rhetoric like a travelling politician who's eaten too much fruit in a strange constituency. He uses all the fine-sounding analogies and metaphors but there's a queasiness beneath...
Although snow flurries chilled Chicago, some 200,000 people attended the Chicago Horticultural Society's annual flower and garden show. Farmers in nearby states looked contentedly at leaden skies, which dropped enough rain or snow to bring new hope for decent crops to the parched plains of Kansas, Iowa, the Dakotas, Nebraska and Minnesota. "It came just the way we like it, nice and slow," Iowa Hog Farmer Bob Helmbrecht said of the springtime moisture. A National Weather Bureau official called it simply "a godsend...
...sings passionate love to the donkey-headed weaver Bottom. She and her husband, Oberon, have fallen out because Tytania refuses to surrender her favorite page-boy to him. The vengeful Oberon schemes as Tytania sleeps unaware on a flowery river bank. He sends Puck in search of an aphrodisiac flower which will make the Queen fall in love with the first creature she sees on waking. The result is just what the fairy king Oberon had hoped for. Tytania espies Bottom (J. Scott Brummitt), whom Puck has given an ass's head. She immediately decides that they could have...