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...Brunhilde, 1998-2000, an open-form cage of intricately fitted cedar slats, a mysterious baglike structure that seems to inflate with breath--like a Wagnerian soprano, says Puryear, filling her lungs for the big aria. And then there are the purely organic forms, which derive from nests, seedpods, flower stems, birds' bones or marine protozoa. An example is his big red-cedar-and-pine piece, Plenty's Boast, 1994-95. As the title suggests, it could be a cornucopia. But it also evokes a slew of other things: the flaring mouth suggests an old gramophone horn, or perhaps a flower...
...Professor Henry Higgins made a duchess out of a cockney flower girl. Could he have done the same for a lass from the antipodes? Unlikely, according to renowned cultural relativist Mahathir Mohamad, who is also Prime Minister of Malaysia. In a speech last week on the general theme of The Evils of the West, Mahathir accused the English-speaking world of forcing its language on the East?and ridiculed Australians for speaking that language so abysmally. He worked up his best Oz accent to quote Henry Higgins' famous tutorial: "The rine in Spine fell minely on the pline...
...pollutants often generated by fertilizers, recently loosened the reins on her two acres. In one section, she has let a reckless meadow flourish where grass once stood at attention. When a group of 600 garden-club members visited her property on a tour, it was not the well-tended flower beds but the meadow that generated the most excitement. "Many of the women just stood in the middle of it," she recalls. A visitor said she was envious of the unfettered habitat but admitted that she doubted her neighbors would allow it. Suburban homogeneity, it seems, can be harder than...
...Their names teem with a sort of secret Shakespearean life. I browse through field guides to wildflowers and weeds, and when I read them, I feel as if I have rediscovered a rich, hidden vein of the English language-a parallel universe populated by such vivid protagonists as Carrion Flower and Wild Bleeding Heart, as Vipers Bugloss and Crazyweed, as Hog Peanut, Corn Cockle, Tansy leaf Aster, Showy Orchis, Death Camas, and that damned elusive Scarlet Pimpernel...
...Alas, kawaii is famously mercurial. Despite hiring young designers, listening to customers and developing relationships with magazines, no company can entirely predict when teen tastes may change. Sometimes girls want?NOW!?what a famous singer wears in her new video. (Ayumi Hamasaki's flower pins, for instance.) But trendy Tokyo girls soon tire of being copied by their country bumpkin cousins in Saitama and Okayama and start looking for newer, more kawaii looks to sport?almost as soon as they've attached those pins to their lapels. That creates a hothouse environment where a brand can go from unknown...