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...Center. Now, with horticulturist Carlton B. Lees, the former First Lady has produced Wildflowers Across America (Abbeville; 309 ! pages; $39.95) and will donate her royalties to help support the center. The botanical handbook is illuminated with photographs of extraordinary clarity and includes instructions on how to make your own meadow, something not yet in the Neiman-Marcus catalog...
...more than 6,000 worshipers in attendance, the ceremony in an Alpine meadow near the Swiss hamlet of Econe was deeply moving. To the Vatican, it was anathema. By consecrating four bishops against Rome's wishes, traditionalist Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre, 82, opened the first schism in the Roman Catholic Church in eight decades. The result: instant excommunication for Lefebvre and his new prelates...
Unfortunately, such tastes often exceed what time allows, thereby ensuring that nurseries and garden-supply stores will be well stocked with shortcuts. Since in most cases a silky lawn is out of the question, there is a burgeoning market for "meadows in a can," which promise a vast, sweet meadow right out of a picture book. This illusion too does not come cheap: a 4-oz. can of Rocky Mountain wildflower seed from Smith & Hawken goes...
...other play, Alan Ayckbourn's more complex Woman in Mind, gives audiences no such easy signposts and thus achieves an even richer mixture of laughter and pain. It opened last week at off-Broadway's Manhattan Theater Club in a staging by the M.T.C.'s longtime artistic director, Lynne Meadow, that excels the London original mounted by Ayckbourn himself...
...bourgeois fantasy of upper-class life, disturbing not only because the wife yearns for this escape but because she fills it with such empty pretense. In one harrowing scene, she gradually loses the / conviction that these are her fantasies and comes to fear that she is theirs. Ayckbourn and Meadow are powerfully assisted by Channing, a 1985 Tony winner, who handles her bravura role with understatement. Poignant and persuasive, hers is the performance of the New York season...