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...play to you, but somehow I doubt it. A hundred years isn't all that long, and your world must look a good deal like ours, if not in its devices and architecture, then in the small signs and gestures. A woman in Rhode Island wants to paint a flower. A man in Wyoming wants to catch a trout. He, somewhere, wants fame and love. She, somewhere, wants children or revenge. Everybody wants. What do you want? What should we want...
...lived in a commune back in western Massachusetts in the 1970s," says Susan Scott, 52, one of the community's founders. "I thought it was a great way to raise children." But in the 1980s, Scott, like so many other flower children, took a right-hand turn. She became a lawyer for the state of California, got married, bought a house, had a child, got divorced...
Indeed, tea has become so popular that it's growing beyond the pot and showing up in everything from cosmetics to candles. Avon has a supersize tea bag for the tub; Kiehl's uses it in makeup, Clairol in hair mousse. The hipster set is buying Red Flower candle and tea sets. In August, Elizabeth Arden launched its Green Tea fragrance and body line. Upscale apothecaries stock Tea Thymes home and bath products, while mass-market drugstores are moving Coty's hit, Healing Garden's green-tea line...
...award for most memorable character goes to Willis the hunchbacked landlord (Dan Hughes '01). Willis has a soft spot towards hippies and recounts to them his disturbing dreams where he controls an African tribe and its mating rituals. The word "moonchildren" actually originates from his speeches and not some flower-children synonym. Willis is quite a character, but the audience has no idea why his role exists. Maybe he is supposed to represent the government, which is arbitrary and cruel under the guise of kind Uncle Sam. If we felt that the characters in the commune had any relation...
...half years," he said. "But you have to have time, which is impossible if you're always working. And you have to be close to them, all the time, or they're going to leave." He broke into English to explain, "It's like a flower. If you don't put water on it, it gets...