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  • The pace is frantic—"Inspector Gadget" lives—and the secondary characters are nattering nuisances: an Earth nerd, Gribble (Dan Fogler), who may have been modeled on John Belushi's screwball pilot in "1941," and a Martian girl, Ki (Elisabeth Harnois), who spouts flower-child phrases like "Mellow out, man, I'm not the fuzz," because she's obsessed with old TV reruns that travel from Earth to Mars as streaming video.

    See Jane Blossom: An Enthralling 'Eyre' Joe Morgenstern 2011

  • Because I first heard it as a groovy sixties-era flower-child anthem from the musical Godspell, the tune inevitably begins to play in my head along with images of long-haired Jesus freaks with tie-dyed dashikis and dazed smiles.

    Beginner’s Grace Kate Braestrup 2010

  • When you spend your childhood zig-zagging the U.S. on road trips with your free-spirited parents, a little flower-child wanderlust is bound to rub off.

    Meredith Barnett: Designer Nanette Lepore Talks Travel, Flea Markets & Her Favorite eBay Find 2010

  • Because I first heard it as a groovy sixties-era flower-child anthem from the musical Godspell, the tune inevitably begins to play in my head along with images of long-haired Jesus freaks with tie-dyed dashikis and dazed smiles.

    Beginner’s Grace Kate Braestrup 2010

  • Because I first heard it as a groovy sixties-era flower-child anthem from the musical Godspell, the tune inevitably begins to play in my head along with images of long-haired Jesus freaks with tie-dyed dashikis and dazed smiles.

    Beginner’s Grace Kate Braestrup 2010

  • When you spend your childhood zig-zagging the U.S. on road trips with your free-spirited parents, a little flower-child wanderlust is bound to rub off.

    Meredith Barnett: Designer Nanette Lepore Talks Travel, Flea Markets & Her Favorite eBay Find 2010

  • What a tribute to the one time flower-child who is described now by Karlene Faith as "a good-hearted woman who suffers the anguished burden of interminable guilt."

    John Waters: Leslie Van Houten: A Friendship, Part 5 of 5 2009

  • I wish all the subsequent memories were innocent flower-child bucolics.

    HIGH ON ARRIVAL MACKENZIE PHILLIPS 2009

  • I wish all the subsequent memories were innocent flower-child bucolics.

    HIGH ON ARRIVAL MACKENZIE PHILLIPS 2009

  • And look at Patricia Krenwinkle, a.k.a. Katie, a flower-child earth-mother just like Flo-Ann who squatted with us that wonderful summer on Cape Cod.

    John Waters: Leslie Van Houten: A Friendship, Part 1 of 5 2009

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