Word: bouquet
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...creator, director and star of an unusual Broadway entertainment called Flowers, in which bizarre, dream-tinged themes involving homosexuality, masturbation, drag parties and transvestism are set forth in mime and in music. On opening night Mick Jogger sent Kemp a basket of lilies, and the critics sent Kemp a bouquet of reviews in which outrage mingled with fascination. "I don't want to shock people," retorts Kemp. "I want to astonish them." He has been deeply influenced by French Playwright Jean Genet and Mime Marcel Marceau. "To me," says Kemp airily, "mime is not about climbing up the stairs...
Shaking hands warmly with the President, the ebullient Brezhnev led him by the arm to a position in front of the honor guard and coached him to say "Spasibo, soldat [Thank you, soldiers]." For Mrs. Nixon, Mrs. Brezhnev had a bouquet of roses. Nixon spent five minutes shaking hands with a smiling crowd of about 500, most of them bused in from nearby offices, and then rode with Brezhnev in a black Zil limousine the 15 miles to the Kremlin. The route, mainly along Lenin Avenue, was decked with American flags, as it had been in 1972, but crowds were...
...Swanee River, in both English and Russian. The couples, together with Kissinger, Kosygin and Podgorny, watched the performance from a flag-draped box at the rear of the theater, and during the intermission gathered for a light buffet. Toasting the women at the table, Brezhnev gallantly reached into a bouquet of roses and handed one to Pat Nixon. Talking to the performers backstage after the curtain, Nixon said that he had seen "a combination of variety, vitality and beauty-and that represents the whole [Soviet] nation." He invited all the performers to visit the U.S., and said in Russian...
When he went to the Bundestag to say farewell to S.P.D. deputies, Brandt was greeted by roaring cheers and applause, and was given a bouquet of red roses. One of his closest aides collapsed into sobs. Brandt had threatened to quit many times before, but friends believe that his decision is now irrevocable. He intends, however, to remain chairman of the S.P.D. and to continue to speak out on political matters...
...gown-a white silk princess-line dress with flowing medieval sleeves. The 15 seamstresses, who made the gown for an off-the-rack fashion house that Anne has long favored over the royal dressmakers, had each sewn into the hem a lock of her hair. Tucked into the bridal bouquet of white roses, lilies of the valley and stephanotis was "something old" -a sprig of myrtle grown on the Isle of Wight from a sprig of Queen Victoria's wedding bouquet-and a bit of white heather for good luck...