Word: flower
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...your article "Flower Power on the Plains" [Nov. 26], you claim that sunflower oil contains less cholesterol than oils made from corn or soybeans. The truth is, there's no cholesterol in any of these oils, naturally. Cholesterol occurs only in foods of animal origin...
...auction as a news and social spectacular came to full flower with Sotheby's acquisition of Manhattan's Parke-Bernet in 1964. Christie's, its more decorous rival, came to New York 13 years later and has been more cautious about expanding worldwide. (Sotheby's has 42 international bases, Christie's 29.) Not totally tongue in cheek, Christie's maintains that "Sotheby's is a businessman pretending to be a gentleman, while Christie's is a gentleman pretending to be a businessman...
...some ways it might better have been called All in the Holy Family. Mary and Joseph look like a couple of '60s flower children, he curly-haired and callow, she snub-nosed, discreetly nubile, with a hint of freckles. Much of what happens to them is intended as dramatic improvement on the work of the original scriptwriters, Matthew and Luke. Mary's father, for instance, is crucified for criticizing the government. Joseph's family has come down in the world, its ancestral wealth having been snatched from it by greedy King Herod. Joseph has been an anti...
...lovely," Entwistle remembers. "People shacking up in tents sunk three feet in the mud, no toilets, peace and love. Backstage I had a couple of cups of fruit juice and found out someone had put acid in it. I wanted to kill him." Onstage The Who sliced through the flower power like a chain saw in a daisy garden, played with an intensity that took the show away from such Mallomar bands as the Jefferson Airplane. Abbie Hoffman scrambled up to join the proceedings, and Townshend responded, as he recalled later, by "kicking [his] little ass in a proud rage...
Goodman can raise a lump in the throat, writing movingly about a workaholic who dies at 51, a faded flower child of the '60s, or women who outlive their husbands. She can elicit a hearty chuckle by recounting how she lavished "time, money, attention and great expectations on four of the only all-male zucchini plants to exist in the memory of my county Agricultural Extension Service." Her feminism is sharp but not strident. When the Supreme Court limited state-financed abortions, she imagined Justice Lewis Powell "barefoot and pregnant" and offered him "a slightly salted wafer to appease...