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Remarkably, through a combination of moxie and Marx Brothers, she makes the most mundane chores seem like an adventure in the bush country. When a straggling vine snags her hair net, she accuses it of assault. "A rampaging hanging plant chasing you around is no good," she says sternly, and starts clipping away with her shears. This leads into a lesson on containing aggressive philodendron: wrap the dangling stems around the base of the plant, puncture the skin and pin the stems down with hairpins so they will sprout anew. Her method for watering hanging plants without dribbling...
...attempt too much, or to be statisfied with too little. Credit for the mean struck in the Adams House As You Like It must go not only to Michaels and his cast, but also especially to the designer, Randall Darwall, and the costume designer, Mara Stolurow. The canopied, vine-draped setting, as flexibly lit by Donald Blair, manages to provide an unusual number of strong acting areas while evoking by turns both the sharp Arden Winter and the generous Spring...
Apart from its size (27,878 students), one of the most noteworthy things about U.C.L.A. is its location: Westwood, Calif., which as the T-bird flies is only 81 miles from the corner of Hollywood and Vine. That undoubtedly accounts for the fact that while U.C.L.A. has produced five Rhodes scholars, it also holds the collegiate record for centerfold cuties in Playboy. Everything at U.C.L.A. is strictly widescreen. Its coeds are the cuddliest, its hippies are the hip-est (one commutes in a Continental convertible decorated with fluorescent flowers), and its football team was undefeated in its first four games...
...Francisco Merchant James Ir vine could hardly have reckoned the size of the legacy he set up back in the 1880s, when he wove three Spanish land grants into a single parcel of Southern California countryside. Rolling 22 miles inland from the Pacific coast, his Irvine Ranch has remained virtually intact as an 83,000-acre spread, nearly six times the size of Manhattan...
...United States." Said the President earlier in the week: "To day in the Middle East-as in Viet Nam and America-we are faced with a task of rebuilding, of putting together a human equation, where men can live as the prophet Micah said, 'Every man under his vine and fig tree; and none shall make them afraid...