Word: florally
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Pick Them. Nine out of ten people who buy reproductions may know or care little about art. They may be housewives in search of a sunset to hang over a mauve sofa and a painted bouquet to match the floral drapes in the guest room, or decorators trying to bring dreadful cheer to thousands of bare hotel rooms. Stacks of floral pieces, faithful dogs, pink-coated huntsmen, summer landscapes and angelic children are certainly a "common heritage," but not the one Malraux talks about...
Duilio Marcante led a group of divers below with floral offerings. He came up white-faced. Said he: "There was a lump in my throat so bad I could hardly breathe and I didn't think I'd ever manage to get to the bottom with my carnations. Then I saw the statue down there. It was truly moving. I shall never forget...
...cups, plates and vases of the Tang dynasty (A.D. 618-907) had that beautiful simplicity which inspired the sages to say that their perfection was the work of nature rather than of man. More numerous than the Tang pieces were Ming blue and white porcelains, decorated with dragons and floral designs whose blues were as luminous as sapphires...
...cost of more than $25 million in the Mexico City suburb of Pedregal de San Angel, Justice Corona snapped: "All that material grandeur is a mausoleum in which is buried the dignity of Mexico. Would to God that in its place we had a well-kept park with a floral sign saying the nation is still ashamed...
...Montparnasse Cemetery, so her friends buried her at Thiais, out beyond the Porte d'ltalie. Foujita was there, his fringed hair now white. One by one the old Bohemians dropped their bouquets on the coffin, and then an old lady, clearly no Montparnassian, stepped forward with her floral tribute. She had been in the same hospital as Kiki, and had loved her gay talk. Cheerily Kiki had said: "When I die, bring me violets...