Word: vines
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...King Bhumibol and told beautiful Queen Sirikit, "I have heard many wonderful things about you, but they do not compare with what you really are." Good-Will Ambassador Brando was "genuinely overwhelmed by the gentle Thai people. Smiles are pretty hard to come by on Hollywood and Vine." But when a little old lady chewing betel nut asked what he did for a living, Marlon went right back to the mumbles. "I sometimes wonder," he mused, adding, "... I make faces...
...Introduction, Salinger (1, last week) 2. Seven Days in May, Knebel and Bailey (2) 3. The Sand Pebbles, McKenna (3) 4. Fail-Safe, Burdick and Wheeler(4) 5. The Moon-Spinners, Stewart (5) 6. $100 Misunderstanding, Cover (6) 7. A Shade of Difference, Drury (7) 8. The Moonflower Vine, Carleton (8) 9. Triumph, Wylie (9) 10. The Cape Cod Lighter, O'Hara...
...Moonflower Vine, Carleton...
...matter how many kinds of strokes convention demanded, each had to be perfect. According to one convention, "a dot should resemble a rock falling from a high cliff. A horizontal stroke should resemble a formation of cloud stretching 1,000 miles. A vertical stroke should resemble a dried vine stem a myriad years old." It is one of the virtues of the collection that there is such an emphasis on calligraphy, for the calligrapher's art was especially admired; as each stroke went into the building of a character and each character flowed onto the next...
...native habitat in Italy and Spain, were surprised to find that on home grounds the weed did not thrive as it did in the U.S. Searching for an explanation, the biologists discovered that the puncture weed is peculiarly susceptible to a particular European pest called the puncture-vine weevil-a quarter-inch brownish beetle with a snoutlike head. The weevil's life cycle is inextricably linked with the growth of the puncture weed...