Word: flowerings
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Many of the details of "Mother, Come Home" only become apparent with second or third readings. A similar-looking flower links two different and seemingly unrelated sequences, for example. Not many books make you want to read them at least twice, but this one has enough going on to merit the effort. The only criticism would be of its unleavened tone. Without a sense of humor some of the more experimental aspects of the book come off as pretentious. The peculiar way the book has been presented as the introduction to an apparently fanciful series, for example, seems unnecessarily confusing...
...best known for 30 years' worth of provocative Cosmopolitan magazine covers; in New York City. During his teenage years in Manhattan, he served as an apprentice to photographers at Vogue and Harper's Bazaar and was soon shooting photos for those and other prestige magazines. His work ranged from flower studies to portraits of such celebrities as Sting, Elizabeth Taylor and Grace Kelly. In 1981 he was diagnosed with manic depression but credited his manic highs for much of his artistic creativity...
...world thinks Triton is mad, and he does too, but his conscience goads him to warn her that she will die under the stars - the night?s thousand eyes - at 11p.m. and that her death will be presaged by a gust of wind, a broken vase, a crushed flower, a lion and the words, ?There?s no danger now.? The night in question, one by one, each element comes true...
...Paris' Monceau Fleurs flower shop chain, which sells trees during the holiday season, says the going rate is around...
...Gondoliers has a plot that the drunker among us might find a trifle complicated: a pair of happy-go-lucky gondoliers, Marco (Phillipe Pierce) and Giuseppe (G. Cross Woodfield ’06), each marry a flower-toting Contadina—Gianetta (Caroline E. Jackson ’06) and Tessa (Maria Alu), respectively. The couples’ nuptial bliss is thrown into doubt when it is revealed that one of them—no one can say which for sure—may be the heir to the Kingdom of Barataria. The heir among them was transplanted to Venice...