Word: bouquets
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...each box, with its lid and compartments and sliding drawers, is a microcosm. At first one is seduced by the greeny blue, aquarium-like interior of Box 17 (Box C). Then the eye discerns the contents, wavering amid their reflections from the walls: a glass goblet filled with a bouquet not of flowers but of vicious glass shards; a morbified pink foot; a small geometrical plastic construction, reclining like a tiny fakir on a bed of nails...
...wines were evaluated on a 20-point scale originated at the Department of Viticulture and Enology of the University of California at Davis. The board's criteria included such characteristics as flavor, bouquet, body, color, and acidity...
Bursting into a swimsuit factory in Passaic, N.J., Sargent Shriver merrily shook hands with sewing-machine operators, accepted a bouquet of roses without looking silly, then responded to a dare by stitching up a bikini top. As delighted women crowded around to squeeze Shriver's arms and pummel him, one of his aides, Mark Shields, said happily: "It's carnal. Positively carnal...
...Nobel Prize: Tolstoy, Proust, Joyce, Kafka and Rilke are but a few. Despite the vagaries of the judging, the award remains by far the most coveted prize for writers, partly because it is a huge windfall ($98,100). There are always famous bridesmaids waiting for the big green bouquet. At present they include Vladimir Nabokov, the finest novelist alive; Norman Mailer, the most protean writer; and poets like W.H. Auden and Robert Lowell...
...soccer match between the Glasgow Rangers and the Moscow Dynamos. With Russian coaching, Americans quickly became vocal Dynamo rooters (the Scots won, 3 to 2). Friendliness was also found elsewhere. While walking through a Moscow market, Schecter was stopped by a woman shopkeeper and presented with a bouquet of tulips. "Moscow is at its best this week," he concluded, "and it's fun to be back...