Word: poinciana
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Inspired by televised wrestling, similar matches are staged weekly in hundreds of backyards across the country. In South Euclid, Ohio, you can watch a show mounted by the teenage Alliance of Violence. In Poinciana, Fla., the federation calls itself Insane Violent Hardcore Extreme Wrestling. More than 400 leagues have websites. And kids trade bootleg videotapes of their antics...
...Levittowns, the master builder constructed huge complexes of inexpensive housing after World War II on the edges of major American cities. Now Levitt is back with a grand new project-a $2 billion community that will go up on the outskirts of Orlando and be called Villa Poinciana. Its 26,000 homes will be priced from...
...sailors, swimmers and snorkelers. Through submarine gardens of coral and undulating sea fern dart brilliant damselfish and trumpetfish, butterfly and angelfish. The waters teem with spiny lobster (langouste); with crab, shrimp and snapper, as well as bass and swordfish. Ashore, the islands are ablaze with hibiscus, bougainvillaea, begonia, poinciana, wild orchids, frangipani, red and orange flame trees, wild ginger. Mangoes, avocados, coconuts, papayas, limes and grapefruits flourish, along with such tropical staples as cassava, spinach-like calalu, calabaza (the West Indian pumpkin), the squash called christophene, and soursop, a fine fruit to squeeze into...
Normally, Palm Beach society stays only for the first act when visiting mummers put on a show at the local Royal Poinciana Playhouse. No point in wasting time at the theater with so many parties to attend. This time everyone stayed to the very end of a not-so-hot comedy called A Warm Body. After all, the star was one of their own: Actress and Post Cereals Heiress Dina Merrill, 41, who returned to her family's old wintering grounds to appear in the one-week run. Her mother, Mrs. Marjorie Merriweather Post, beamed proudly from...
...Sanford, wife of Socialite Stephen ("Laddie") Sanford, winters at Palm Beach, and Florida this year has been chilly enough to turn even the minks pink. "Your jacket seems to have picked up a glow from your ruby necklace," Laddie remarked brightly to his wife at Palm Beach's Poinciana Playhouse, whereupon he learned that his wife's genuinely rosy wrap was the harbinger of a new fad for pink mink. The skins of the specially mutated minks cost quite a mite ($400 per pelt, and a coat takes 60 pelts), which the average married Homo sapiens may find...