Word: floras
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...DIED. Flora Robson, 82, versatile British character actress who graced both the London and Broadway stages and scores of films; in Brighton, England. She specialized in villainesses, including Lady Macbeth, the demoniacal Ellen Creed in Ladies in Retirement (1939), and the shoplifter in Black Chiffon (1949), but was also known for her portrayals of Queen Elizabeth I, most notably in the 1937 film Fire over England...
Threatened animals are protected by the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora, known as the CITES treaty. The pact, which took effect in 1975, has 87 signatories. The U.S. has two additional umbrellas: the Endangered Species Act of 1973, which bars the import of animals or plants on an "endangered" or "threatened" list, and the 1900 Lacey Act, which forbids the entry of plants or animals taken illegally out of another country...
...first Lectureship was awarded to Flora Lewis of the New York Times in 1982, and in 1983 the speaker was Norman Kempster of the Los Angeles Times...
...Flora and fauna animate the works of two American sculptors...
...result, in her better works, is very far from mere curiosity. Graves has an acute sense of spatial construction and knows exactly when to rein in the intrinsic oddity of her metal flora. So one does not get distracted wondering what this or that thing was: what counts is what it now is, its role in a larger system of metaphors that circles back on nature. One would need to be a bronze gourd oneself not to be delighted by this artist's ebullience and delicacy of feeling...