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...planting is not orderly--no exotic topiary of Disney's beloved barnyard critters. The look is what Comstock calls "promiscuous and harlequin," a quiet riot of greens, a forest painted by Rousseau. Comstock found some of the plants in Nepal, riding a mother elephant named Durgha Kali who recalled Paul from a previous visit and insisted on porting him again. As Comstock tells it, he would point to plants; Durgha would pull them out and pass them up to her master. Like any good Imagineer, Comstock must not only talk to the animals (and plants) but also put his vision...
...Prime Minister Tony Blair, the New Yorker's editor, Tina Brown, composed a "Fax from Washington" that she ran in her magazine's Talk of the Town section. It was a memorable bread-and-butter note, a valentine to her host, the President, written in the prose of a Harlequin romance: she sees "a man in a dinner jacket with more heat than any star in the room...his height, his sleekness, his newly cropped, iron-filing hair." Forget, wrote Brown, "all the Beltway halitosis breathed upon his image...the neo-puritanism of the op-ed tumbrel drivers." Instead...
Even if it skews slightly away from the Harlequin-style plot slightly, there are still things about the characters that follow romantic convention. In fact, the plot skews just enough to make it cute enough to watch...
...think anybody wants to deal with politics anymore," says Harlequin. "They want to get as far away from it as possible...
...Harlequin, 17, whose Deadhead father gave her a hippie nickname, as he did most of his 12 children (Sunshine, Moonshine...), opines that "the '60s life-style still seems to be going very strong." But beyond her fashion statement--a flower-child revision, with pastel jewels on her nose and forehead--she is hard-pressed to cite any examples. "We have Phish, now that the Dead are gone," she ventures. "And raves. It's very much the same idea as a be-in or love-in to go to a rave...