Word: flowerings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...been able to read KLM's in-flight magazine, featuring their skipper, Captain Veldhuizen, as a handsome example of the airline's reputation for "reliability." When word was radioed to the crew that Las Palmas Airport had been closed because terrorists had touched off a bomb in a local flower shop, injuring eight people, they landed at Tenerife instead. Veldhuizen took advantage of the delay to refuel his plane for the flight back to Holland. He took on 21,000 gallons...
...revival, She Loves Me has the faded fragrance of a pressed flower. The musical is shamelessly romantic, head over heels in love with love. Amalia (Madeline Kahn) and Georg (Barry Bostwick) are secretly lonely-heart pen pals who have corresponded ardently for a year. Neither happens to have given the other a clue to the fact that they are fellow clerks in the same Budapest parfumerie. Ecstatic about each other in print, they are rather allergic to each other in person. When will the epistolary lovers discover the secret behind their secret? With all the fine talents caroling and cavorting...
...plane had been scheduled to land at Tenerife at all. Both had been headed for El Gando Airport in Las Palmas on Grand Canary Island some 50 miles away. In a plot twist that even Hollywood would have thought farfetched, a bomb had exploded in a vase in a flower shop at El Gando shortly before the planes were due to land there. Both were diverted to Tenerife-and had been cleared to resume their journeys when the fatal encounter occurred...
...Sweet Flower of Youth...
...bulk of The Compass Flower seems too serene to rid itself of fatigued images ("autumn leaves," "salt of the earth") or to prove that its serenity has been earned by struggle. Many Western ears will find it hard to tell whether Merwin is being vatic or phatic...