Word: flora
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...cocky, self-absorbed father who demands perfection in his son, Aaron (Max Minghella), and wife, Miriam (Juliette Binoche). He points out a spot his wife misses on a pot she cleans, he obnoxiously corrects his son on minor details, and he never pays attention to his introverted daughter, Eliza (Flora Cross)—that is, until she wins the local spelling bee. Saul, a theology professor, insists that his daughter’s spelling powers are intrinsically connected to Jewish mysticism, which, of course, means her powers would be best spent in winning the national spelling...
Spring is in the air at Sydney's Museum of Contemporary Art. Each September, the gallery celebrates the budding talents of the Australian art world, and this year's "Primavera" has the riotous colors of hothouse flora. Taking as its subject the painted landscape, it's a terrific show - from the airily spiritual (Pedro Wonaeamirri's totem poles) to the patently superficial (Jemima Wyman's fluoro forests). While at times dark in theme (in particular, Madeleine Kelly's ecological dreamscapes are eerily resonant of inundated New Orleans), it's enough to raise your spirits about the state of contemporary...
...into a hoist and descended to the slippery tile roof, aiming for the chimney which crumbled under their weight. The PJs chopped through the roof and went inside, surprised to find all eight people squatting in Edna's apartment. They hoisted them out one by one. Edna's mother, Flora, came up with her walker. Her friend Mary came up with her cane. None of them brought anything more than a change of clothes and a small stash of money and medication...
...bullring while he was studying to be a bullfighter himself; he was astonished when one sold for $2. Since few people in town had actually seen original works of art, Botero says he painted "by intuition," but quickly realized he had found his passion. He gently told his mother, Flora, that he wanted to be an artist. "She warned me, 'You're going to die of hunger,'" Botero recalls. "I couldn't care less. I was so happy." Botero proved his mother wrong the following year, when he was 17, by winning a national art prize of about...
...With so much flora and fauna on display, the show offers relatively few pictures of people. Only one portrait is included: the stern Cho Man-young, with stringy beard and moustache, painted by Yi Han Chul in the 19th century. Still, there are some lovely renderings of the literati themselves: scholars alone in their pavilions admiring nature, or meandering through the countryside on the backs of donkeys, or on a picnic?challenging one another to produce the best picture or most expressive calligraphy. One of the most charming is Yi Song Rin's 1748 Sage and Child Under the Moon...