Word: fleurs
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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After a lengthy debate in meetings over a month ago, the co-op elected to buy select lunch meats and tuna fish with co-op money, upsetting some vegetarians--many of whom could not attend the meeting, said Fleur Z. Weinstock...
...more interesting. Dumb Fun, a vertiginous number with sporadic bass-guitar spasms, was composed by stringing together semi-random passages from a notebook of ideas Hatfield had been keeping for about six months. "Had a heart by accident," goes one line of the song. Another track, the idiosyncratic Fleur de Lys, is sung entirely in French...
...here is the ghost of old Fleur Pillager, forced from her land by the building of a gambling casino, the bingo palace of the title: "She doesn't tap our panes of glass or leave her claw marks on eaves and doors. She only coughs, low, to make her presence known. You have heard the bear laugh -- that is the chuffing noise we hear and it is unmistakable. Yet no matter how we strain to decipher the sound it never quite makes sense, never relieves our certainty or our suspicion that there is more to be told." The author...
Leger, the cubo-futurist, also shows signs of the intense energy that characterized futurism. All the events in his painting "Fleur de Tournesol," painted in 1953, radiate with signs of motion. The petals of the flower seem to move towards the edges of the painting...
...Smith and Tallulah Bankhead; deportation from Britain; gunfights in Paris; and finally, ascension to the status of a national hero in France, where he died in 1959. Along the way, the hot-tempered Creole managed to record hundreds of tunes, including such classics as Summertime, Strange Fruit and Petite Fleur. These two digitally remastered sets, both of them copiously documented and illustrated, contain the bulk of his U.S. recorded work...