Word: flower
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...race. For those with more genteel interests, a world-class art-and-science museum is being built near the Marina Bay Sands. Designed by renowned Israeli architect Moshe Safdie, the facility looks on paper to be as distinctive a landmark as the Sydney Opera House-its dramatic roofline resembles flower petals or an upturned palm. "We call it the Hand of Singapore," says George Tanasijevich, general manager of Singapore development for Las Vegas Sands...
...Aizenberg says. “I am looking at these smart biological materials from the point of view not of a biologist but of a physical scientist and engineer.”In addition to the brittle star, Aizenberg cites the example of the Venus’ flower basket, a deep-sea sponge that not only builds a “glass house” with mechanical properties superior to any man-made glass, but surrounds the house with a cloud of optical fibers, using techniques similar to those behind recent innovations in optical technology.Federico Capasso, the Wallace professor...
...admired—Joseph Mallard William Turner and William Henry Hunt—and those by Americans whom he influenced, including Charles Herbert Moore, Henry Roderick Newman, and Joseph Lindon Smith.Opening with a group of rocky landscapes, the exhibit is organized thematically from architectural studies to fruit and flower still lifes. Ruskin’s work lies alongside those of his followers. Ruskin’s influence is apparent in the clear tones and precision of these works, but one can also perceive the artists’ own variations from Ruskin’s style.The centerpiece, and perhaps the best...
...description—a distinctly youthful mix of exuberance and confusion—combines action with perception, physical anatomy with clichéd poetry: “Then everything turned into a succession of concrete acts and proper nouns and verbs, or pages from an anatomy manual scattered like flower petals, chaotically linked.” In another particularly moving scene, “the mother of Mexican poetry” recalls seeing soldiers and tanks herding captive students and professors into a van “like something from a World War II movie.” Determined...
...second act, the action occasionally swerved into overdrive. Look left and you see Dickie (Alexander D. Rafael ’07-’08) spiking the punch. Right: Candy (Harrington) twirling a flower. Center: Diedre and Rebecca competing for male attention. The acting was superb, but there was no central point of action. I found myself sitting at the edge of my seat, twirling my head like a dreidel in attempt to catch every little bit of action—and, in the process, missing the overall scene...