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Sweet Fruit. For the ceremony, Jackie and Arlo placed crowns (plastic) of stephanotis and ivy leaves in their hair, and were attired in fairyland white-the bride in a shimmering velvet gown and train with lace trim, the bridegroom in a puffed-sleeve shirt and bell-bottom trousers. While the dogs barked a processional, Folk Singer Judy Collins sang Leonard Cohen's Suzanne ("She's touched your perfect body with her mind"). Arlo's mother read a poem that Woody, who died in 1967, had written years ago for his son's wedding: "May your gladness...
...aquiver with indignation. Seems that in 1952, while performing under the name Derry Dover, he made an album for Bouquet Records. Now Bouquet has released the album, with the famous Tiny Tim visage on the cover, using the title With Love and Kisses from Tiny Tim-Concert in Fairyland. In New York Supreme Court, Tiny's lawyers argued that his vocalizing has changed as much as his name and demanded that Bouquet stop trying to cash in on his current fame. The judge agreed and slapped a restraining order on Bouquet Records...
Across the street, at the corner of Cambridge and Quincy Streets, a small crowd gathered to gape at the ice palace that earlier that morning had been an Economics Department office building. Gutted by a blaze, the building was soused with water that quickly froze into fairyland formations. Icicles like blodthirsty pixies held the building in an iron grip...
...Figure from Fairyland...
Arendt calls him "a figure from fairyland," and none who knew him can resist commenting on the sparkling, playful eyes lodged in his deep and at times overpoweringly sad face. Elizabeth Bishop remembers him looking "small and rather delicate but bright and dazzling, too" on the crest of a Cape Cod sand dune, writing in a notebook. Robert Fitzgerald finds his face "old-fashioned and rural and honorable and a little toothy." His wife says that he grew the immense beard to look like Chekhov, but to another observer it hides "the naked vulnerability of his countenance...