Word: bouquets
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Although the game may not have had a rosy beginning, it certainly had a rosy ending. Following the contest, Delaney Smith was presented with a bouquet of her own for reaching the century-win mark as Harvard's coach...
...there was a knock at the door of my apartment. I answered to find a small round man sweating nervously and burbling apologies in Russian. To lubricate what he clearly feared would be a difficult encounter, he had brought along a bottle of Bulgarian brandy. He also had a bouquet of flowers for my wife...
With the names of trees you can make a fine pagan bouquet of words: hornbeam, ginkgo, quickbeam, oak, white willow, tamarind, Lombardy poplar, false cypress, elder, laburnum, larch, baobab, black gum, rowan, hazel, whitebeam, tree of heaven...
MYSTERY OF THE ROSE BOUQUET...
...Kiss of the Spider Woman, the novel of two mismatched prison inmates that became an Oscar-winning film, Manuel Puig portrayed how enforced intimacy can impel people to enter each other's psyches. Mystery of the Rose Bouquet, now at Los Angeles' Mark Taper Forum, explores the same phenomenon. This time the setting is a hospital in Argentina, and the characters who drift into each other's dreamscapes are women -- an old contrary patient, rich and autocratic (Anne Bancroft), and a middle-aged nurse whose outward cheer belies a lifetime of thwarted opportunity and scant satisfaction (Jane Alexander...