Word: flowerings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...marbled halls. The earl-to-be spurns his title for love, the girl rejects his proposals so as not to deprive him, and love finally conquers all -- with the slyly introduced help of Shaw's Henry Higgins, the alchemist of social class who makes a convincing duchess of a flower girl in Pygmalion...
From the gold-rush camps and Hollywood to the flower children and Silicon Valley, California has long been the place where the newest manifestations of the American dream first sprouted. In Orange County, the dream seems to be driven by the lure of both success and excess. With 42 miles of beckoning oceanfront, this California-style Riviera is a 38-sq.-mi. wedge of land stretching from the Pacific Ocean to the Santa Ana Mountains and harboring the thriving towns of Newport Beach (pop. 67,000), Costa Mesa (88,000) and Irvine (89,000). It includes a constellation of some...
...illustrates Chaplin's obsessive perfectionism. His 1931 classic City Lights took more than two years to complete, as the director shot endless retakes and stopped filming for weeks at a time while he sought inspiration. For one important scene, in which Chaplin's Little Tramp first meets the blind flower seller, he shoots for weeks, groping in vain for a way to convey a crucial piece of plot information: the girl has mistaken the tramp for a rich man. Nothing seems to work. The scene is finally completed, but Chaplin returns to it months later with one more idea...
...garden suitable for barbecues or evening parties, and perhaps a tennis court, can be had for less than $100,000; $50,000 will buy a house that would go for five times that amount on the outskirts of Washington or in New York's Westchester county. The tree-shaded, flower-filled white suburbs are as glistening, and the shopping malls as spectacular, as ever. In the jammed parking lot of Sandton City, a luxury mall outside Johannesburg, the bumper sticker of a cream- colored Mercedes last week carried these words: WHEN THINGS GET TOUGH, THE TOUGH GO SHOPPING...
...people are gathered." The couple spoke the traditional vows, and then the gathering of 100 guests quietly sang America the Beautiful. A deer watched from behind a tree. Afterward, while the bride and bridegroom headed off for a reception in the double garage of her parents' home in Eureka, Flower Girl Elizabeth Browning wandered down to the creek and dropped petals from her bouquet into the water, watching the slow current take them away...