Word: flower
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...lecture tours is recaptured during the five-day convention, where the audience chooses a winner from among both the celebrity and the amateur speakers. At one of the numerous parties, Cleo Dawson, who will not give her age but is recognized as the eldest I.P.A. member, sat beneath a flower-bedecked hat and shouted encouragement to various contestants. "Hello, honey," she yelled, "you were wonderful last night." Turning back to her table, Dawson got serious. "There are no second-raters, not here. They're all artists." Her favorite lecturer? Says Dawson: "Myself...
...demonstration could have been a flop. The Marines inside the embassy gates were nervous and sent out Afghan lackeys to hassle any translators working for the gathered journalists. Ruzicka climbed up on an old concrete flower box and, shouting above the commotion, told the family's story and demanded compensation from Congress. She had no microphone and the crowd was being broken up even as she spoke. But through sheer force of personality she pulled it off and the story ran in the following day's papers. "I'd rarely met someone who could combine such strident activism with canny...
...contradictions within each of them. Yet individual views are all that is left of this singular event, since the rubble of Hiroshima has long been bulldozed away, the dead cremated, the air blown clean. Today on streets over which the Bomb's cloud rose like a red-purple flower are coffeehouses where Mozart is played, gilded hotels with blazing chandeliers, COKE IS IT signs and the headquarters of the Mazda corporation. Everything faces forward, except that the name of the city can never be mentioned without invoking a past to which everyone is attached, and an immediate private silence. Hiroshima...
...camera is constantly moving, especially when using a hand-held, and the montage of shots and images is often completely unmatched (cutting, for example, straight from a close-up of a flower to a shot of the swirling sky), resulting in a rather dizzying experience...
...Rubbing shoulders with the more traditional caf?s on Sankt Hans Torv (or Sankt Hans Square) is Kaffeplantagen, tel: (45) 3536 2232, a caf?-cum-flower-shop that opened in early 2004. Norwegian owner Henriette Arff had already decided to sign the lease on a flower shop with her Danish business partners when she realized that she wasn't getting anywhere in her search for the perfect cup of coffee. The solution was to merge the flower business with her vision of a decent caf?that means Kaffeplantagen's customers can purchase a potted azalea along with kaffe og kage (coffee...