Word: flower
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...down to earth as the hardy brown oxfords he wears under his monastic robes, and in his eyes is still the mischief of the little boy who used to give his lamas fits with his invincible skills at hide-and-seek. He delights in tending his flower gardens, looking after wild birds, repairing watches and transistors and, mostly, just meditating. And even toward those who have killed up to 1.2 million of his people and destroyed 6,254 of his monasteries, he remains remarkably forbearing. "As people who practice the Mahayana Buddhist teaching, we pray every day to develop some...
Eighties politics from a flower child's point of view. Dozens of brightly colored, boldly emblazoned t-shirts proclaiming slogans like these line the display window of Cambridge Natural Foods (CNF), preparing one to enter a back-to-nature world of organic farming and left-wing activism...
...Baton Rouge, La. A van from Fred Heroman's flower shop arrives at the Louisiana State University Assembly Center, bringing Spanish moss to complete the Cajun backdrop for the Vice President's speech at the jambalaya rally...
...television commercial. In a TV talent contest, a demurely dressed ten-year-old girl belts out a tune from Cabaret: "I used to have a girlfriend known as Elsie/ With whom I shared four sordid rooms in Chelsea./ She wasn't what you'd call a blushing flower./ As a matter of fact, she rented by the hour...
Relieved of this worry, Stankard began producing a profusion of wild-flower paperweights: painted Trillium, black-eyed Susan, loosestrife, lady's slipper and prickly pear cactus. Sometimes they were shown in their entire life cycle: bud, blossom and seedpod on a single stem. Sometimes their root systems were shown beneath the earth on the underside of the crystal globe. Even as a child, he had a passion for wild flowers. Now, as a working artist, he improved his knowledge of their shape and form by studying flowers he found growing behind his house or on long walks in New Jersey...