Word: florally
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...insurance policy -my wheelchair. They might hesitate before shooting a man in a wheelchair." In mid-January, Mijangos, who was paralyzed from the waist down, was shot in the back 27 times as he was leaving his office building-in his wheelchair. His law students tore to shreds a floral wreath sent by the ultraconservative president of Guatemala's congress, Mario Sandoval Alarc...
...Pinter did in Accident. Instead, he applies black humor within the blissfully sloppy and easy-going frame of character-types which are so familiar that they never really threaten to be ominous: The Sherlock Holmes sleuth who stalks, magnifying glass in hand, the unctuous undertaker who speaks of "floral tributes," the cool-as-ice nurse who hides a whopping sex drive. With characters such as these, each occupationally linked to death, but in funny, obsessive ways, Orton spins a yarn about stolen money which provides the perfect set-up for an irreverent travesty on death, the dead...
...real star of the evening was Mrs. McCleavey's shrouded corpse, and its accoutrements-her grayish marble eyes, her false teeth, her Bingo Society "floral tribute." Maybe if we all had the chance to tear the dead apart and turn them upside down in locked cabinets and carry their stiff corpses around in our arms as the characters in Loot do, we might all find release from the hold of death in our minds. For as objects, in silk-lined strong-boxes, our bodies, as Orton sees them, are interchangeable and not so much contemptible as laughable. Joe Orton...
...floral path to prosperity has been thick with thorns. In Little Rock, one 17-year-old girl was busted for blocking a street. Some florists near Dallas, irked that Scott and Campbell were undercutting them by selling carnations at $2.50 a dozen, threatened to boycott merchants who allowed flower children to operate in front of their stores...
...grand circle from twelve avenues. Still, the place maintains its grandeur. All Paris seems to begin there, radiating majestically outward from the arch. The eternal flame flickers over the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier. Against that setting, countless Frenchmen, who only a week before had solemnly laid a great floral Cross of Lorraine there to honor Charles de Gaulle, nodded approval of the demonstrators who marched down the Champs-Elysees toward the great landmark proclaiming: "Leave us our Etoile...