Word: florals
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...generals led the funeral parade, carrying a large portrait of Andropov. His full-cheeked, almost youthful face contrasted dramatically with the skeletal, almost alabaster profile that thousands had glimpsed while filing past his coffin. A sea of red floral wreaths followed, adding a brilliant touch to a procession colored mostly in drab grays and black. Then two officers in tall Astrakhan hats appeared, carrying the late leader's 21 medals, including Orders of Lenin and Orders of the Red Banner of Labor on red satin pillows. It was exactly half the number of medals that had accompanied Brezhnev...
...million Soviets who died in World War II. Often the memorials are guarded by rosy-cheeked youths who carry automatic rifles (unloaded) and wear the red neckerchief of the Pioneers, the Soviet equivalent of scouts. On their wedding day, young brides and grooms go to war memorials to lay floral tributes to fallen soldiers. On park benches, old men playing chess wear rows of ribbons that attest to their military service...
...when they came, their blossoming was remarkable. In fact "blossoming" is hardly the word, for it suggests a soft, floral, ethereal event, adjectives one would not pick for the tough paintings, often full of barely controlled anger, that she was to produce after 1960. Krasner's cubist background had given her a strong sense of how to manage her pictorial field as a whole, rather than preserve, in abstraction, the choice of "figure" and "background." In the best of her '50s work, like Blue Level, 1955, the play of raggy shapes and roughly sliced strips of burlap...
...seven women from the maiden's chorus and seven men the dragoon soldiers. And yet the small company ample fills the intimate Agassiz stage, which is highlighted with a colorful backdrop of two birds standing nose to nose and flowers spread over the two story set. The costumes are floral as well. Characters constantly flourish huge plastic flowers, reminding us that the traits the plot hangs on are ephemeral and will wilt in time...
...represent a cross section of the Polish nation. Sunburned farmers in baggy suits and wide ties stood side by side with teen-agers in blue jeans, wearing T shirts printed with words like KUNG FU. There were aged veterans, their chests bristling with medals, and pretty young girls in floral-print summer dresses. As before, red-and-white banners bearing slogans like HOLY FATHER, BLESS SOLIDARITY vied for the Pope's attention with wooden crosses and religious pictures...