Word: blossom
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Whether you thought of the picture as cold or warm, the plum blossom throbbed with the youthful emotions of the painter. Probably Keiko had painted it just...
When Keiko presents him with one of her paintings, it is of a plum blossom "as large as a baby's face," mixing the colors red and white...
...from the Gide-Paul Valery letters: "Letters are most alive when freshly delivered in the sender's handwriting, something perishes when they are typed, more when they are printed, most of all when they are translated. Finally we are left with a well-pressed flower from the original blossom, a silent film of a lifelong tennis match without the sound of the rallies, the oaths and the endearments...
Matina Horner took on the presidency two years ago with a glittering vision of Radcliffe as it might be, the best of both worlds--a women's school that gives its students protection, strength and room to blossom in this sexist world, but also a co-ed school, with its obvious social, emotional and educational advantages. Opponents of merger feel that it is necessary to have the protection Radcliffe affords, to have an advocate for women's rights and a focus to keep them from being isolated within the male university. Harvard has shown so little concern for women...
...Buster and Billie, it is a pretty sure bet that Billie is going to meet the most popular boy in school. Indeed, Buster soon asks her out and has his way with her-privately, to be sure-in the front seat of the family pickup. Romance and Billie blossom, more or less in that order. The pair pass a great deal of time making love, going skinny-dipping and observing the photogenic glories of nature, while Buster's buddies become increasingly irked. The love affair violates the tenets of what the film makers see as ingrained redneck bigotry, swinishness...