Word: flowerings
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There are two ways to approach the annual “Art in Bloom” festival at the Museum of Fine Arts (MFA). For the artistically snobbish the event—which invites New England Gardening Clubs to interpret the MFA’s paintings in flower arrangements—is a chance to scoff at the genteel world of Gardening Clubs and Ladies’ Societies and their decidedly bourgeois tastes...
...Flower arranging requires expert precision and creativity. Unlike an artists’ traditional tools of paint or marble, flowers can wilt, pale, droop and behave in other unmannerly ways. Yet this ephemeral nature of the flowers is what brings the works to life. “Art in Bloom” juxtaposes timeless canvases and temporary blossoms, and offers viewers the opportunity to see older works in a new light...
...having invented the novel. Lady Murasaki's Tale of Genji (Genji Monogatari), written some 600 years before Don Quixote, is a weirdly fascinating narrative of erotic and court intrigue. For Western readers it can only reinforce the image of Japan as, in Yukio Mishima's words, "a nation of flower arrangers...
When I was living in Kyoto in the late '70s, Yasunari Kawabata was the most popular novelist among the American expatriates who were seeking a vision of a Japan untainted by foreign culture. Kawabata's aristocratic aesthetes, tea masters and geishas are the epitome of Flower Arranging Nation and some of his novels, to Western eyes, are more a series of beautiful tableaux than novels - too precious by half. His greatest works like Snow Country and House of Sleeping Beauties are haunting; more than any other Japanese author, Kawabata satisfies our appetite for strangeness and exoticism. Kawabata himself created...
...hope they're doing something else to make themselves feel better, because the bloom may just have come off this flower. In what is by far the most definitive study yet of the efficacy of St. John's wort in treating major depression, doctors last week concluded that the extract is essentially useless. On the basis of these findings, published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, Dr. Richard Shelton, a psychiatrist at Vanderbilt University and the study's lead author, says flatly that he wouldn't recommend St. John's wort to any of his patients...