Word: floridation
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...foreign adulation with a tired hand, and finds himself returning to the world of his parents and his birth. Despite the title - and a cameo appearance by Colonel Sanders of KFC fame - 2002's Kafka on the Shore was Murakami's most overtly Japanese novel yet, delving into the florid mysteries of Shinto. He continues his homeward orientation in After Dark, a slip of a novella that explores a single night in and around Tokyo's sleepless Shinjuku district...
Something similar is now going on with Cho, whose florid writings and videos were an almanac of gripes. "I'm so lonely," he moped to a teacher, failing to mention that he often refused to answer even when people said hello. Of course he was lonely...
...Table Stories range by Tord Boontje for Authentics If fairy tales are an inspiration for Boontje's Table Stories collection, the results are anything but Grimm. The in-demand Dutchman, whose studio is in Bourg-Argental, France, has created delightfully florid underglaze prints that will charm even your grouchiest guest. With such fantastical forest creatures hiding beneath your food, magic at mealtimes is guaranteed. www.authentics.de...
...Motion Picture Academy will give the man an honorary Oscar "for his magnificent and multifaceted contributions to the art of film music." That sounds florid, but it's almost faint praise, since Morricone has done more than dream up some of the most ravishing melodies of the past half-century. He kicked new life into film composing, blending pop and symphonic elements into metamovie music...
...names of those on the committee. If my enumeration of my project’s “beneficiaries” sufficiently pleases the committee, which meets next month—I somehow resisted the temptation to scrawl jokingly “lumpenproletariat” in florid capital letters—I need only pay a $300 “research clearance fee” and then I can begin.Yes, it’s my third consecutive summer in Africa, but, as in any good fable, there’s a lesson to be learnt. I’ve learned...