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...animals; poodles are most popular, cats come next, and at election time elephants and donkeys take over. Florists are constantly going to new lengths in the dyeing of flowers to match the color of party dresses or room decors; in Atlanta, teen-agers have enigmatically made the black-dyed orchid a big selling item. The industry is also pushing the everyday use of flowers in homes and offices, trying to break people of the habit of waiting for an occasion. Most florists agree that two of the biggest economic threats in years have passed their peak: artificial flowers...
...interest as a phase of fine art." This pronouncement seemed to mean that 4,000 years of Indian sculpture was damnably hard to categorize, and that its frank eroticism dismayed Victorian minds. But today's scholars are drawn to it as surely as bees to an orchid. Indian sculpture in the period from 2500 B.C. to A.D. 1500 is a hothouse wonder, an other-worldly idea clad in contemporary curves...
...Physicists, an excellent play by Friedrich Duerrenmatt (The Visit), is set in a lunatic asylum. Peter Brook directs the "black comedy," which stars Hume Cronyn, Jessica Tandy, Martyn Green, Robert Shaw and George Voscovec. The Diamond Orchid spans the last 37 months in the life of an Eva Perón. Lorraine Hansberry's The Sign in Sidney Brustein's Window, her first play since Raisin in the Sun, is about a Greenwich Village newspaper publisher, played by Mort Sahl in his first straight Broadway role...
...memory floats Joyce-like to the surface: "I was struck by a thought as to where I might have seen Pennistone before. Was it at Mrs. Andriadis' party in Hill Street ten or twelve years ago? His identity was revealed. He was the young man with the orchid in his buttonhole...
Died. Arthur Hugh Bunker, 68, retired chairman since 1960 of American Metal Climax, and younger brother of Ellsworth Bunker, U.S. ambassador to the OAS, a kinetic, foresighted businessman who dabbled successfully in fields as diverse as oil speculating and orchid growing (at one time he owned one of the world's largest orchid nurseries), but found his niche among rare metals, promoting new uses for radium in medicine, new processes for extracting vanadium (a steel strengthener) and new markets for molybdenum, a high-strength metal of the jet age; of leukemia; in Manhattan...