Word: rosebud
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Statue of Liberty in the harbor-and tries to open a coffeehouse. He finds a promising firetrap on Bleecker Street, signs a lease that looks like a Dead Sea Scroll, and begins to clear out the debris, among which he uncovers Citizen Kane's sled, in scribed "Rosebud...
...Everything is rosy in Rosebud." insists the official slogan of Rosebud, Texas-and the town newspaper proclaims it in each weekly issue. But Rosebud is really rotting. Along the main street, a dozen business places have shut up shop; the owners of many others would gladly sell out if there were any buyers around. A longtime Rosebud resident, Mrs. Howard Linn, recently showed a trace of the old "everything is rosy" spirit. "We've got a brand-new rest home," she said. "We've got two good hospitals. We've got two good funeral homes...
...Rosebud is just one among hundreds of similar towns, for across the U.S. the small town as such is dying. Only a few years ago, Niland, Calif., proudly called itself "The Winter Tomato Capital of the World." But Mexican growers, using cheap labor, invaded the U.S. winter tomato market, and Niland's prosperity collapsed. Since 1956 the number of tomato growers in the area has plunged from 300 to 28. Cars, trucks and farm equipment were abandoned by their owners, are now rusting into worthless junk. One of Niland's remaining tomato farmers recalls that during the peak...
...read when he decided there must be more to life than following a mule along the rows of a piney woods cotton farm. At seven, young Milner-dubbed "Dumas" by his family because he tagged after a hired hand by that name-signed up to sell an elixir called Rosebud Salve to neighboring farmers. In the 35 years since, Dumas Milner has never stopped selling, and last week he did his biggest buying and selling yet. Breaking off the biggest single chunk of his $60 million Southern empire, Milner swapped his thriving household-products business (Perma Starch, Mystic Foam Cleaner...
William and Jean Eckart designed the extremely handsome settings. Since the cast includes three Rosepettles, Commodore Rosabove, Rosalie, and Rosalinda the fish--and, for all I know, Jonathan may be keeping a "Rosebud" sled in his closet--it is no surprise that the chief color of the decor (and of some of the costumes) is rose, with which two pieces of orange-upholstered furniture are delightfully inharmonious. And Thomas Skelton's lighting, properly non-realistic, is stunning...