Word: frond
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...procession of frond-waving believers, the singing and chanting, and the proud parents snapping photos of their princess-garbed daughters made the Palm Sunday celebration in the Beirut suburb of al-Fanar look like any of the hundreds occurring all over Lebanon. But after the service, the conversations among parishioners revealed the special nature of this community. Many of them spoke Arabic with heavy Iraqi accents - al-Fanar has become a magnet for Christian refugees from Iraq...
...Thirteen,” Bruce Springsteen’s “Thunder Road” and the Pogues’ “Sayonara.” The disc also features songs by Lord’s longtime friends Nick Saloman (of the Bevis Frond) and Grammy-winning mainstream breakout Shawn Colvin (of “Sunny Came Home” fame...
...dense that no light shines through the canopy of foliage, along jagged ridges often shrouded in fog, is like fighting in a dark closet with sunglasses on. The enemy are masters of the hit-and-run ambush, and might be lurking behind every curtain of vines, every thicket or frond...
...inwardness and remoteness of this girl are emphasized by the spiky leaves of the dark tree behind her--a juniper, ginevra in the Italian of the day, her given name. Then, on the back of the panel, is the explanatory inscription. A branch of laurel and a palm frond--for glory and virtue--enclose a twig of juniper, with the inscription "Virtutem forma decorat" (Beauty adorns virtue...
...other struggling indie artists on the shelves. In addition, the covers she's doing for Got No Shadow include a great deal of indie material; she's especially proud of the new Nick Salaman covers she's doing, which she calls "poppy and beautiful." Salaman, former leader of Bevis Frond, has collaborated with Lord in the past, but the Got No Shadow material is most characteristic of his individual music, with less guitar and "more pop virtuoso...