While âbonsaiâ specifically refers to dwarf potted trees based on the Japanese model, it is also used as a generic term for related artforms in other countries, which include but are not limited to the following: Penjing are the older and original form of Chinese miniature landscapes.onsai are not genetically dwarfed plants, in fact, any tree species can be used to grow one. Techniques such as pinching buds, pruning and wiring branches, and carefully restricting but not abandoning fertilizers are used to limit and redirect healthy growth.
In the United States, the single reached number 80 in the Billboard Hot 100 in November 1988, in conjunction with the release of the film Imagine: John Lennon. Jealous Guy also peaked at number 22 on the Hot Adult Contemporary chart.
Written by Richard Kerr and Will Jennings (who also supplied Manilow with the minor masterpiece Somewhere in the Night), the song featured one of the more balanced, restrained arrangements in Manilow's extensive catalog of dramatic love ballads.espite Manilow's reputation for sentimental schmaltz, he tended to select love songs with characters were confused, hurt, and haunted by the past -- who perhaps hadn't expected adult relationships to be so complex, and the happy endings so difficult to achieve in real life.