Word: florals
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Chopin and her husband Oscar lived with their five sons (a daughter was born later) at 1413 Louisiana Avenue, on the edge of the wealthy, floral-scented Garden District. The house is not open to the public, but this architecturally noteworthy area is worth a stroll...
...research helps to explain why differing concentrations of odorants can produce entirely different sensations. For example, the chemical indole is perceived as floral when diluted but smells putrid in high concentrations, according to a press release on the study...
...outs of your amant. "You're not going to get very far if you don't know the [color of her] eyes," Stilgoe says. It is also important to know the favorite color of your Valentine. And to be a true gentleman, says Stilgoe, a man might consult a floral dictionary and send flowers with specific meaning. Of course, "in the old days, he could write poetry...
About six miles from the Eiffel Tower, construction could begin soon on another outsize and controversial millennial project: a $42 million Earth Tower rising on wooden struts, bisected by restaurant and exhibition space and crowned by a floral halo of metallic petals. At 650 ft.--a height that will require passage of a special law in parliament--it would command stunning vistas comparable to those of the Eiffel and Montparnasse. Meanwhile, the Pompidou Center, with one of the biggest collections of 20th century paintings, is scheduled to reopen its doors at midnight Jan. 1, 2000, after being partly closed since...
...scores of first-years had passed through the Union's old distinguished dining room, in its last years it had grown tawdry. The famous butter-patted ceiling was looking more dirty than distinguished; the paint was peeling off the walls; the rotunda was encased with God-awful green-blue floral curtains; and the tray return area was a steam-filled Rube Goldberg contraption...