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...what did I send my grandmother? I finally chose a blank card with a not-horribly-offensive flower on the front and escaped from card hell. Then I made a beeline for the nearest stationery store, where I gathered an armful of plain, heavy Crane's notecards and envelopes. As I stood in line with my selections, I felt a weight lift: Never again will I depend on America's greeting card manufacturers...
...most of the city's funeral companies are located reveals a world that is at least murky, if not outright illicit. At the sight of a journalist, most of the morticians disappear through back doors or behave as if they are mute. One, Lo Shuan-lin of the Lucky Flower Village Funeral Co., complains his police informants are charging too much. "The cops want $600 for a corpse," he says, adding that the high prices are eating away at the funeral companies' bottom lines, forcing them to pursue customers more "aggressively...
...write myself a note, then drag the Chatpen across the send box. The note appears almost instantaneously on the laptop screen. I draw a flower: on the paper it's in plain black ink, but I use the Chatpen to assign colors to the different lines. I check "send" again: a pretty, colorful flower appears on the laptop screen. O.K., not so pretty: I'm as bad at drawing as writing, but the colors are good. For variation I write on a Post-it note, then on an organizer. It all works perfectly. Regrettably my handwriting doesn't improve: some...
...outstanding painter of Protestant churches, Gerard Houckgeest, whose beautifully bare Interior of the Nieuwe Kerk in Delft with the Tomb of William the Silent, 1650, is composed with fanatical, emphatic strictness and gave rise to a whole dynasty of memorial church interiors. There were a few fine flower painters, like Balthasar van der Ast, whose elaborate portrait of variegated tulips in a vase could not, as the catalog interestingly points out, have been done from life. (At the height of the Dutch tulip mania, such rare blooms would never have been cut for a painter; he would have...
...Flower Power...