Word: flowerings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...volume of poems, White Shroud, carried the several books and notebooks he carts from one poetry reading to the next. For a self-styled "post-beat modernist," he looked remarkably conservative: blue blazer, candy-striped shirt, and rep tie. The only hint of nonconformity was a small dried flower under glass which he wore as a lapel...
...Mets." Not on your life. I'm a loyal New Yorker, to be sure, but the Mets are nothing to me. They didn't exist when I was a kid, and loyalties are shaped by those early years of splendor in the grass and glory in the flower...
...jubilant esprit de corps that arose from the irony of the situation. Here was a new twist on an old and no longer meaningful pastime--"mass bakage" in the thinly disguised form of an idealism dead for 20 years. The festival offered fresh entertainment in the mild lampooning of flower power, a perfect showcase for cynically irreverent eighties...
...viruses in a primitive form of germ warfare; they apparently supplied their intended victims, the Aztecs and the Incas, with blankets taken from houses with smallpox in Europe. Viruses helped cause a fiscal crisis in 17th century Holland, where infections of tulip bulbs produced a new variety of the flower with spectacular, rippling patterns of color. The government was unable to control the resulting speculation, which threatened the economy before tulipomania, as it became known, died down...
...live that summer of 1984? On the one hand, with great difficulty, overburdened. But I also continued working on my flower garden. I planted Matthiola and Malva. I made jam, lots of jam. If Andrei continued to be separated from me, he would at least have jam for the whole winter...