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There is such a thing as an instant garden, more's the pity, but one pays a price for it. "Within the past three years or so," observes Larry Shapira, a horticulturist and consultant at Merrifield Garden Center outside Washington, "people have started coming in who just don't want to wait for smaller plants to become big ones. They want to go to the garden center in the morning, pick up the plant, drive the thing home, plant it, and have a drink under it that evening...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Paradise Found: America Returns to the Garden | 6/20/1988 | See Source »

Disenchanted with school, Randi often played hooky and one afternoon found himself in Toronto's Royal Alexandra Theater, where Magician Harry Blackstone Sr. was performing. For Randi, it was instant addiction. "What I've since recognized," he says, "is that it is the kids who don't quite fit the social picture who go into magic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: James Randi : Fighting Against Flimflam | 6/13/1988 | See Source »

...minister's announcement came in the midst of campaigning for the first round of two-round legislative elections in France and triggered instant counterattacks from conservatives. "I find it absolutely lamentable that they want to use the army as a scapegoat," said Jacques Toubon, secretary-general of the Rassemblement pour la Republique, headed by former Premier Jacques Chirac, who authorized the rescue operation before he left office in early...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: France: First Heroism, Now Homicide? | 6/13/1988 | See Source »

Martin stayed off the field during Monday night's 3-2 loss to Boston under threat of instant ejection. He had vowed to be his usual self yesterday, and suggested he would file a lawsuit and claimed he might resign...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yankees Bop Can, Sox, 4-3 | 6/8/1988 | See Source »

...result of all these costs, Carrie barely had carfare home after its Broadway opening night. There was no contingency plan, just a hope against hope for generosity from the critics. When that failed, Gore, Librettist Lawrence Cohen and Lyricist Dean Pitchford started shopping for emergency investors to create an instant reserve fund. Landesman pondered stepping in with more cash from Jujamcyn but in the end decided not to underwrite even one additional week's losses so the search for investors could go on. Explains Landesman: "I would have put up $500,000, but I didn't see the rest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: The Biggest All-Time Flop Ever | 5/30/1988 | See Source »

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