Word: flowerings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...writes her own material, all told has turned out some 80 songs, 50 of which have been published. They are simple, marked by a soap-opera concern for the minutiae of middle-class life, and full of frankly sentimental perfume, e.g., "It takes so much love for a single flower to be born of a morning." Micheyl sings the songs in a lilting, open-throated voice, shaking her tight golden curls. Songs like Ni Toi Ni Moi, which celebrates the fact that love is stronger than anything, have moved Parisian poets and musicians to confer on a Micheyl record...
...models to suit Ming tastes, and comes off as a triumph in space and contrasts. But T'ang Yin could not resist slyly mocking the mood of scholarly repose. On the painting he wrote: "Miss Li Tuan-tuan of the House of Shan Ho is indeed a walking flower. In spite of all the rich men in Yangchow, she has given her love to a poor scholar." The House of Shan Ho housed the prostitutes of the day. ¶ Ch'iu Ying worked mainly in the painstaking style that dates back to the T'ang Dynasty...
...Court Painter Lu Chi was not only the favorite bird and flower painter of his day, but honorary commander of the Peking secret police as well. Lu Chi's aim was to please the luxurious and conservative official taste of his time, and he succeeded superbly. Grass, Flowers and Wild Birds is a typical example of his work, that for delicacy and refined technique has never been surpassed...
...More solitary listeners pull shades, take the phone off the hook and even lock their doors. Wrote one fan, too old to attend the Met any more: "On Saturdays, I get my black velvet dress out of its box. And I dress my hair and put a fresh flower in a vase beside me. After all, I am to spend the afternoon with dukes and duchesses." In the '305, when the Met was being refurbished, a Texan had one of the plush seats sent to him so that he could "listen in style." One devotee left...
...right thing, but performance with elegance casts a spell. Let me do some thinking in the direction of impeccable, symmechromatic, thunder-blender . . . (The exotics, if I can shape them a little.) Dearborn might come into one ... I thank you for realizing that under contract esprit could not flower. You owe me nothing, specific or moral...