Word: flowerings
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...Hindustani traditional violin-like instrument—strummed in the background and combined beautifully with a fantastic red light splashed onto the stage, where Brandeis University students performed the opening “Tarana” dance. Wearing pastel pinks and blues and hair twisted into flower-accented French braids, the girls danced in the style of Bharatnatyam—an Indian classical and geometrically graceful dance genre that dates back to 4000 B.C.—and skillfully embodied the spirit of a traditional Indian village In “Ashto Sambur,” Jessica M. Marglin...
...learn to be a lady. A special sort of lady: a geisha, one of the "wives of nightfall" who for centuries have entertained Japanese gentlemen with delicacy, wit and performance skills. At 15, Chiyo has these graces only in embryo; but a famous geisha, Mameha, sees how they might flower. She begins the girl's education sternly. "That is a perfect bow. For a pig farmer." "Rise. Not like a horse." And slowly the eager student with the "watery" gray eyes grows into a captivating woman known as Nitta Sayuri. Hatsumomo, another geisha, sees Sayuri's promise as a threat...
PILLS TO PREVENT BREAST CANCER? Evening primrose oil, pressed from the flower's seeds, is rich in gamma-linolenic acid, a substance that a new study in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute found inhibits a gene that causes nearly 30% of breast-cancer cases...
...brief speech by Whitman and Alissa M. Gordon ’06, who worked on the corporation over the summer but left the company shortly after the runway show, the models began streaming out. The crowd became visibly excited when certain pieces emerged, such as the signature dress with flower petals on the straps. But for the most part they behaved politely, only murmuring to friends behind cupped palms. An upbeat techno playlist, which Remele later reprised at his trunk show, obscured their infrequent chatter. Most of the women in the audience were dressed as formally as the models...
...minutes I am wearing: $11 jeans, gold slippers, useless gold belt, childsize velour sweatshirt, and a handmade flower hair pin from the Ashby Flea Market. In 15 years I am wearing: The same $11 jeans and all my own handmade originals...