Word: bouquet
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...into the parking lot of Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in West Hollywood, Calif. It is an increasingly common sight these days. Out of the van comes a clump of helium-filled balloons, bobbing in the expensive air. They are blue and silver: it's a boy. Next, a balloon bouquet of pink, pearl and white: a girl. In Hollywood, where trendiness is a measure of sincerity, sending flowers to mothers who have just given birth to babies went out with designer jeans and saying "Trust me." These days the modish gift is balloons...
...defining policy and strategy. In the beginning, Walesa insisted that Solidarity should be a pure and simple labor movement, not a political opposition. On the day he showed up at a Gdansk apartment building to open Solidarity's first makeshift headquarters, a wooden crucifix under his arm and a bouquet of flowers in his right hand, Walesa told a crowd of reporters, "I am not interested in politics. I am a union man. My job now is to organize the union...
...young Cleveland widow by the name of Julia Tuttle, who moved to Miami in the 1870s. The city then was a makeshift village of shacks and sand trails hacked out of palmetto groves. When a freeze destroyed the citrus crop of central Florida in 1894, Tuttle picked a bouquet of orange blossoms untouched by the frost and sent it to Financier Henry Flagler as proof that South Florida was worth a look. Flagler, who was already building up St. Augustine, came, saw and was conquered; he built a railway to Miami and beyond, all the way to Key West.* During...
...cheers echoed through the cavernous convention hall, Walesa strode casually to the podium. Said he: "Over the past year, we have been learning democracy. Through this congress, we will be wiser because of the comments and policies made here." Someone thrust a bouquet of flowers into his right hand. With his left hand, he triumphantly held aloft a canvas bag containing the election ballots as the delegates sang a chorus of Sto Lat (May He Live a Hundred Years). The scene recalled an even more exuberant celebration three days earlier. In honor of Walesa's 38th birthday, a group...
...through the vibrant orchestration of color. Each character is given his own "aura"-a kind of placenta of color that indicates his passion or humor. And every time the queen's mood changes, her surroundings change too, like obedient subjects. The queen recalls her dead husband, and a bouquet in her hands turns blood red at the memory. When the lovers walk through the woods, chlorophyll seeps into the leaves, and flowers segue from red to royal blue. Now the queen, revived in love, rides through the meadow, and the colors chorus riotously: her hair is rifle-fire...