Word: flowerings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...tall lilac-coloured flower had appeared only a few years before, and in the local language there was no word for it. The people still called it 'the new thing' or 'the new thing in the river,' and to them it was another enemy. Its rubbery vines and leaves formed thick tangles of vegetation that adhered to the river banks and clogged up waterways. It grew fast, faster than men could destroy it with the tools they had. The channels to the villages had to be constantly cleared. Night and day the water hyacinth floated...
...woman approaches me at The Rat. She is small and comely, her thin black dress, cut in strips that hang from her waist, revealing in a flash. Saucy red lipstick and a flower painted on her cheek, she is a smiler, coming right up to me and asking if she can illustrate my entire body. She is a body illustrator. Her name is Cretin Hop. At home she gives me cleavage, shows me a giant watercolor illustration of Patti Smith--slightly smudged by sweat--marked painstakingly beneath the knap of a breast...
During the late sixties, he was as much amused by the "flower punks" of the Summer of Love as he was by the contagious mediocrity which brought plastic furniture to the suburbs. Never one to take the world seriously, Zappa has long since moved to Montana and become a dental floss tycoon...
...Fantasy of Fleurage, Art from Pressed Flower Petals-- Arnold Arboretum, through June...
...LAST THING today's acheivement-oriented, disco cool generation wants to see is a movie vaunting sixties nostalgia. Flower Child Groovies, Peace On Earth, and Power to the People are ridiculed slogans. Can anyone take Jerry Rubin seriously when in 1979 he summons BU students to sit-ins and protest rallies, regardless of cause...