Word: flower
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Nixons have three Christmas trees: the 65-ft. spruce on the Ellipse south of the White House, a 19-ft. tree decorated with each state's flower that adorns the marble entrance foyer, and a 9-ft. blue spruce upstairs that is trimmed with ornaments that the Nixons have used for years. The tree in the family quarters stands on a revolving base that plays Jingle Bells. Outside, for the first time, tiny white lights glow from the boxwoods that line the front driveway. To TIME Correspondent Bonnie Angelo, Mrs. Nixon explained: "You can't overdo at Christmas...
...Cactus Flower answers one of the less pressing but more engaging questions facing America today: Can Laugh-In's Goldie Hawn really act? Yes, she can, and so can Walter Matthau and Ingrid Bergman. With that kind of cast, a Sears, Roebuck catalogue could serve as a script, and Cactus Flower is far more than that. Director Gene Saks is no Billy Wilder, but Wilder's collaborator I.A.L. Diamond (Some Like It Hot, The Apartment) is still I.A.L. Diamond, and he knows funny lines when he writes them. Ornamenting Abe Burrows' stage hit (itself an adaptation...
...posture of a question mark and the consummate frustration of a period that longs to be an exclamation point. Goldie is a natural reactress; her timing is so canny that even her tears run amusingly. In recent years Broadway comedies have not survived translation into film. Although unpretentious, Cactus Flower succeeds on screen, thanks to two old masters-and a shiny new one-who have learned that actors get known by the comedy they keep...
...Perhaps most missed will be Goldie Hawn, that dizzy cream puff who is constantly blowing her lines. Because of her Laugh-In exposure, she landed a feature role in her first movie, Cactus Flower, in which she appears with Ingrid Bergman and Walter Matthau. Next come two more movies and two television specials that, swears Goldie, will be the last. She seems to mean it when she says, "A movie is serious business-it's more important than a television show...
BARNETT FRUMMER IS AN UNBLOOMED FLOWER, by Calvin Trillin. Soft implosions of mirthful satire that should trouble the social and political pretensions of those who would be with...