Word: flowered
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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PALM SUNDAY. Like so many undergraduates before homecoming, parisinoners have put together floats and costumes for a parade around the church parking lot and right into the sanctuary. At the tail end comes a flower-festooned forklift truck; Father Quinlan, standing atop the truck's raised platform and waving a green branch, symbolizes Christ entering the Holy City...
Griggs quickly learned, however, that many of the old frustrations of news gathering had persisted. "The telephone system remains a shambles, punctuality is still nonexistent, and appointments are seldom kept. The old Belgian bureaucracy has been embroidered upon and enhanced, and the matabish, or bribe, is still in full flower...
...constituents organized a two-week boycott of schools, justifying their opposition to busing on grounds of racism and fear for their children's safety. Explained Thomas O'Connell, father of seven: "The question is: Am I going to send my young daughter, who is budding into the flower of womanhood, into Roxbury...
Snakes and Parrots. Burke called his stories "tales" and had no illusion about their realism. In his Limehouse, Fu Manchu stalks opium dens; every flower girl has a "lily-white bosom" and is generally no older than 14-Burke seemed to have a pre-Nabokov feeling for nymphets. There are sharp krisses, malevolent white parrots and deadly snakes. It is, in fact, a never-never land that encloses the reader in a cave of such hypnotic mandarin prose as the following...
...Harvard Book Store is showing some contemporary paintings by young Korean painters, several of whom have won the Korean National Exhibition. Most of the works are examples of traditional Oriental themes--landscapes, bird and flower scenes, waterfalls--done in watercolor or brush and ink. All are for sale and most are expensive but a few show a control of color and technique that let them transcend the banality of their subject matter...