Word: flowerings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...give bed-hopping, two-timing Warren Beatty what's coming to him, the audience will laugh it up. Why not split a safe gut at this hind-sighted view of crazy, misguided youth at the down of the Nixon years. Goldie Hawn squirms in her miniskirts; flipped-out flower children skinny dip at a pot party; and Beatty, as the highly heterosexual hairdresser George, gets by for language with just muttering "You're beautiful, baby, beautiful." That director Hal Ashby glosses over and thus cheapens this picture of searching sixties youth by painting them only as mixed-up, inarticulate...
...says. Although they had never met, Dapper had an ongoing feud with the elegant Boston Globe columnist, the late George Frazier '32. "He's where he belongs," O'Neil says. "I pissed on his grave one night...sure, I was sober.... He was a fag with that fuckin' flower...
Predictably and pathetically, however, these crusades often took the form of silly flirtations with hippie dress, hallucinogens and other symbols of the counter-culture, and ended in the embarassing spectacle of a middle-aged refugee from the corporate rat-race (his hair probably thinning out so rapidly that a flower wouldn't even stick in it) bending some earth-mother's ear with ironic memories of his deserted wife and how she just did not understand...
...ambitious new generation of white, mostly Democratic, Southern politicians swiftly spotted and responded to the signs of change. That generation came into full flower in the early '70s, with election of a remarkable group of progressive Governors: Arkansas' Dale Bumpers, Florida's Reubin Askew, Mississippi's William Waller, South Carolina's John West, Louisiana's Edwin Edwards?and Jimmy Carter. They have since spawned a second generation. In Arkansas, Moderate David Pry or succeeded Bumpers as Governor, defeating old Segregationist Orval Faubus. In Mississippi, Cliff Finch, who uses a workingman's lunch pail as his political symbol, has followed Waller...
...rural community of Myrskyla, where Viren was born and raised, his mother had to clear her living room of a jungle of congratulatory flowers so that she could have an unobstructed view of her television for the later races. Indeed, the two flower shops in Myrskyla (pop. 2,300) were sold out within hours of the 10,000-meter race, and the chairman of the communal council had to postpone his official visit of congratulation until a fresh supply arrived. After Viren won his medals at Munich, the community gave him a plot of land and raised money to help...