Word: flowers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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With 2,500 gallons of simulated rain per minute pouring down, Warner Bros, began shooting My Fair Lady, and plopping gamely into the puddles went Audrey Hepburn as Eliza Doolittle, that "so deliciously low, so horribly dirty" flower girl who gets brought indoors by Professor Higgins. Audrey and Co-Star Rex Harrison were not the only ones getting soaked: the movie rights ran to an all-time high of $5,500,000 and production will cost an estimated $15 million, a record for the studio. Audrey herself will collect a splashy...
Everywhere there are signs of Nikita's three grandsons, the children of his daughter Rada and Izvestia Editor Aleksei Adzhubei. Toys and bikes are parked near flower beds. Aleksei Jr., a towheaded eight-year-old with hornrimmed glasses, zooms around in a green, gasoline-powered Cheetah Cub Car, an American-made miniature sports model that Dad picked up on a visit to the U.S. The seat of the Cheetah is covered with real leopard skin...
...list includes wine (the biggest import item, about $22 million worth), brandy, Roquefort cheese and flower bulbs, but it leans heavily on merchandise made in West Germany, the chief market for U.S. chicken exports before the higher tariff. If they are retained on the list, trucks and buses (aimed at Volkswagen), stainless steel netting, electric razors, flat steel wire, scissors and shears will all be slapped with higher tariffs. The U.S. strategy: to show that it means business and to cut sufficiently into export sales of German industrialists so that they will be roused to oppose the powerful German farm...
...seen in the reactions of, say, high school students to the character of Hud. He is a dynamic, attractive human being. But judged by his actions, he is an unmitigated bastard, motivated solely out of self interest: he sleeps with other men's wives, he drives his Cadillac over flower beds, he tries to have his father declared incompetent so that he can get control of the old man's property. Yet high school students have adopted him as a hero; they admire his bravado, his coolness, and they either ignore his amorality or admire that...
...much loved the passing moment, the play of sunlight, the delights of the body, to surrender them to philosophical principle. In fact, he loved life with a fervor that is even more apparent in his notebooks than in his formal writings. "Every year the young girls come into flower on the beaches," he wrote with characteristic sweetness about Oran. "They have only one season. The following year, they are replaced by other flower-like faces, which, the previous season, still belonged to little girls. For the man who looks at them, they are yearly waves whose weight and splendor break...