Word: flowerings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...quick six-day tour of the province, for an oldtimer, is a delight. The small towns throb again, their booths full of sweets, cookies, housewares, clothes, textiles, flower pots and flowers. In big cities like Chengdu and Chongqing, the huge food markets overwhelm the eye with food that can be bought without coupons. Hogs come squealing to market in wheelbarrows, on tractors, even lashed to the backs of bicycles, then reappear in the markets as huge slabs of pink-and-white pork. Peasants bring in their wives' squawking chickens, eight to a basket. Down the market lanes peasants sell geese...
This demographic rejiggering, if it does occur, portends not merely more Americans with lush flower gardens and good suntans: the balance of political and economic power in the U.S. should continue tipping south and west, and state and local governments in the Sunbelt will have to scramble to keep up with millions of new constituents. It seems certain that the governments will be hard pressed by the new or expanded demographic bulges to provide new or expanded services, just as states that lose people will have difficulty with shrinking tax bases and reduced federal...
After the ceremonies were over, Aquino's plain wooden coffin, draped with the Philippine national flag, was carried out of the church by 16 pallbearers amid cheers and chants of "Ninoy. Ninoy." When the coffin was placed atop the flower-bedecked platform of a flatbed truck, a crowd that had gathered before dawn went wild. Police estimated that, despite torrential rains, more than 1 million people had gathered along the 19-mile route between the Santo Domingo Church and the Manila Memorial Park cemetery...
...Metropolitan Museum placed the reconstructed living room of his Francis Little House (1912-14) of Wayzata, Minn., on permanent display, joining the Temple of Dendur and other landmarks of the march of civilization. Wright was despotically insistent on designing every interior detail of his houses, right down to flower vases and table linens; he even wanted to redesign the telephone...
...Bill, bristling and unrepentant: "It didn't hurt anybody; it didn't affect anybody." Grant, a singer who went from croaking Frank Zappa to crooning Frank Sinatra: "We're not quite so trusting any more." The last and most poignant word goes to Lance, the dark flower of the family who seemed to blossom on camera: "You look back on it and you think, "That was really life? or is what I remember of it life...