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...piece collection is deployed throughout. Boys' clothing is in the back, shoes are up the stairs, and there's a VIP room for celebrity clients. Children head straight for the playhouse in the center of the main parlor, and nearly everyone stops to gawk at the flower bed growing from the ceiling. The average purchase at the store slightly tops Bonpoint's $200-a-customer standard, but is way shy of its most profitable store, on Paris' Avenue Montaigne, where customers buy outfits in multiples?one for every house they own. Plus, the new store has attracted a different clientele...
...this flower dying according to the curve
...childhood diet of "dark gruel made of tree bark and sorghum." Subsisting now on noodles and expired canned goods, they marvel at the urban paradise around them. Little Plum, writes Yan, "roams the supermarket, admiring stacks of dish detergents, napkins and bath towels as if they were flower beds or pavilions in a park." Dan's yearning for the good life - and his delight with the gustatory perks of his new calling - initially blind him to the swamp of favors and payoffs he has entered. But, in a twist out of the Socialist Realism handbook, he finds himself becoming...
...Santo Domingo, a plaza that has been taken over by protesters, three haunting "ofrendas" were lit the previous evening. Made of flowers and seeds, food and drink, these offerings are set out for the visiting, hungry dead. These three particular ofrendas have been erected to the memory of an American, Bradley Will, the freelance documentary filmmaker shot dead on Friday as he recorded a clash between protesters and pro-government vigilantes. Further away, on the street called Cal y Canto, by a barricade, there is a more shocking ofrenda to Will's memory: one adorned with a photograph...
Apparently this is the latest from the author of “Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell,” and it looks like a good one to cuddle up to on a black, mysterious, winter’s eve. The flowers on the front aren’t giving much up by way of plot, but the back promises “petulant princesses” and “vengeful owls.” Oh boy! Brew yourself some whole-leaf elderberry-flower tea and tell Petunia Maplethorpe the Sufjan concert will have to wait. This cloth-bound...