Word: daffodill
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...year Easter appears in March; another, it slips across the border into April. How, then, do you kick off a seasonal trade when the calendar plays so freely with ribbon-cutting day? You coax the public perception of spring forward, "force" it, as you would a daffodil...
...three-volume work, but the kid could probably cause shutter flutter no matter who his parents were. At Kensington Palace, nine-month-old Prince William the Charmer sat not entirely still for just one more photo session. The young royal intermittently bared his six new teeth, chewed on a daffodil, and hugged his stuffed koala, perhaps in anticipation of the family's upcoming tour of Australia and New Zealand. Breaking with a tradition that calls for heirs to be left safe at home while their parents travel, Prince Charles, 34, and Diana, Princess of Wales, 21, are taking...
...kiss the hand of my future Queen?" asked Nicholas Hardy, 18, proffering one golden daffodil from the far side of a police barricade...
...bewildering, as Resnais bombards us with shots of rocks, plants, frogs, and turtles while Laborit tells us that many living things do not need to move to live but that human beings do need to move to live. It seems that Laborit would prefer to have been born a daffodil, as he drones through a monologue that sounds like those educational films from ninth grade bio class...
Although Elizabeth was the center of the celebration, the Jubilee's festivities were not limited to her. Throughout the country Britons organized street parties, ox roasts, raffles, puppet shows and picnics. In London alone, there were 4,000 street parties. On Hammersmith's Daffodil Street, for example, the semidetached brick houses of this lower-middle-class neighborhood were decorated with portraits of the Queen and festooned with balloons and bunting. In the working class's East End, a banner proudly proclaimed JUBILEE STREET OK FOR LIZ, while in wealthy Kensington, a bobby-sporting two Union Jacks...