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...carried Friday’s pageant on the strength of her violin concerto, a platform advocating music education in public schools, floral pattern evening gown and blue one-piece bathing suit...
...doorknob and produced in myriad shapes, the pipe bowl was a canvas on which Chinese artisans displayed their talents. Patterns on pipe bowls ranged from geometrical designs, such as the Hindu swastika (also used in Buddhist art), to whimsical portraits of Chinese roosters, tigers, dragons and phoenixes, to floral renderings of bamboos, orchids and peach blossoms. To those versed in Chinese iconography, this is rich irony: these positive attributes so artfully symbolized?longevity, strength, happiness and wealth?were all certainly lacking in the lives of the average opium addict...
...Simple tables line one side of the room. Bright and cheerful paintings of scenes from Israel adorn the walls. Large brass enamel teapots and vases from Morocco, Marcus’s country of origin, sit high atop the shelves behind the counter. Strands of plastic ivy hang from floral decorations that sit on the shelves...
...Made from water drawn from 460 ft. below the Russian ground, Zyr is distilled five times with winter wheat and rye. This creates a velvety-smooth feel in the mouth, a floral scent with a faint vanilla taste and a sipping vodka that is at its best drunk neat or on the rocks. --By Lisa McLaughlin
Perhaps such floral provocations are part of the shift away from the cozy and toward the industrial in our homes. Or maybe as florists eschew mere arrangement and become "event planners," their work becomes more ambitious...