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...Bloom” represents the Olympics of flower arranging. The museum secretly gives each garden club its assignment early in the spring. Unlike flower arranging competitions, where arrangements are rigorously judged, “Art in Bloom” opens the door to all sorts of bold floral arrangements. In one of the most effective arrangements, created by Susan Kaplan of the Beth Shalom Garden Club, three thick, pitch-black palm spades interspersed with pink bird-of-paradise form a sharp, pyramid-like construction. The angles echo the shape of Alexander Archipenko’s sculpture “Turning...
...unseasonably hot sun, Furusho surveys the small rock garden he built outside his barracks. Next to the gray stones and tiny green bushes lazes Buddy, the company's guard dog. Buddy lies about all day on a green mat, barely moving. The joke among the soldiers is that the dog appears to do little but, if anyone tries anything, he would leap into action. That's maybe how they would like to see themselves. The lives of the Japanese soldiers here are not much more exciting than Buddy's. And if Buddy stays bored, that's good news for Japan...
...easy way out of a situation. Brandenberg is the best example; it would have been all too easy for his character to be the stereotypical snarling villain who deserves and receives his comeuppance at film’s end. But just as Bly is more anti-hero than your garden-variety all-American hunk of beefy goodness, Brandenberg is shown to be a human, with both flaws and admirable virtues. One expects him to play the villain, and it comes as a pleasant surprise when the script allows him to display his love and heroism at key moments...
...sign hanging from a third story window of a residence directly behind the Mahoney's Garden Center reads, "No Harvard Buildings Here--Save Our Neighborhood...
...residents mobilize on both sides of the issue, in the meantime, Mahoney's manager James Hohmann says that the nursery will continue to perform its function in the Riverside neighborhood, serving as a quality small-scale nursery for the Cambridge and Boston area, as well as a public garden for local residents...