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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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I wish all the subsequent memories were innocent flower-child bucolics.
HIGH ON ARRIVAL MACKENZIE PHILLIPS 2009
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I wish all the subsequent memories were innocent flower-child bucolics.
HIGH ON ARRIVAL MACKENZIE PHILLIPS 2009
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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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