Word: flowerings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Philadelphians understood the episode to be an extreme case of Murphy's Law, when everything that could go wrong went even worse. But even so they were shocked by the devastation of an area whose residents --teachers, nurses, civil servants, factory workers -- were known for their flower gardens and congenial block parties. Ronald Merriweather, whose home escaped damage, looked at the smouldering ruins of other houses and said, "It looks just like a war zone. The neighborhood was here and now it's gone." Families that had evacuated supposedly for a day found themselves refugees in the emergency shelter that...
...easy to see these assessments as an attempt by Carter to put the best face on a bad situation. The bold steps taken at Camp David seven years ago have yet to flower into a broader agreement. The Israeli invasion of Lebanon has stalled even the warming between Israel and Egypt. And even the latest initiative by former foes Jordanian King Hussein and PLO head Arafat has met with skepticism from most Israelis...
...this seems like a flashback to the you-are-what-you-feel 1960s, there is a reason: Arquette, 25, is a flower child come to blossom. The granddaughter of TV Humorist Cliff ("Charley Weaver") Arquette, and daughter of a Second City improv artist and an activist poet, Rosanna played in the mud at Woodstock when she was ten and was taken by her mother on peace marches, her naked body painted STOP THE WAR, KILL NO MORE. After the tenth grade she left school in Chicago and hitchhiked to California. "I just bummed," she told TIME Correspondent Denise Worrell. "Then...
...Ancienne Lorette Airport to the final handshake that Reagan and Canadian Prime Minister Brian Mulroney exchanged on the gray stone battlements of the historic Citadel, the meeting was as carefully choreographed as a ballet. Indeed, the two leaders reveled in the spotlight when they and their wives left their flower-bedecked box at Quebec City's Grand Theater during a Sunday evening gala and joined entertainers in a rousing chorus of When Irish Eyes Are Smiling...
Equally disastrous is this year's greenhouse look advocated supposed to resemble a refugee Technicolor Tarzan set in flower print fabrics that will attract every lovesick bee a five mile radius Norma Kaman's dresses and boxers almost manage to redeem the look, but' all just short...