First used for a full-length movie (Rouben Mamoulian's "Becky Sharp") a decade earlier, and brought to blooming fruition in "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs" and "The Wizard of Oz," the new technology reached its astounding apogee in the lips of Gene Tierney, as red as a witch's apple.
It brings to full bloom what was only hinted at in the polite exchanges between the astronaut and HAL, in "2001: A Space Odyssey," and, toward the end, as Samantha joins forces with like minds in cyberspace, it offers a seductive, nonviolent answer to Skynet, the system in the "Terminator" films that attacked its mortal masters.
Perhaps it is a creative passion that has been simmering, but never brought to surface, or maybe a talent that will now begin to bloom.
Our intent may be exactly the opposite; we may cry out about the therapeutic narrative of body hatred in order to decry the forces that brought it to bloom in the first place.
It's a sublimely beautiful interlude and a touch ridiculous, bringing to mind the blooms of a portentous rose bush in D. H. Lawrence's "Sons and Lovers" that "expanded in an ecstasy," a prelude to later forest rutting.
If no stem appears, bring to slightly sunnier position, and switch fertilizer to Jack's Classic Orchid Bloom Booster.
I recalled the Instagram posts that had brought me to the bloom; those flowers, flimsy and unmolested, seemed better than the bargain bouquet I now beheld.
I recently brought into bloom some Chinese sacred lilies from a garden center.
And it is Pacific Northwest Ballet, under Mr. Boal's direction, that has brought her to this full bloom.
