Word: grass
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...color. Unfortunately, the color of a $49 bouquet of tiger lilies from Flowerbud.com which had arrived by FedEx early that morning, was predominantly green because the lilies hadn't begun to open. "It doesn't feel like getting flowers," remarked a co-worker. "It's more like getting grass." The $62 multicolored tulips hand-delivered from 1-800-Flowers.com were brighter but a little ragged and carelessly arranged. I immediately tossed one droopy stem, and by the next day there were more brown petals...
...Dolly Parton's second fling with bluegrass follows on the clog heels of last year's excellent "The Grass Is Blue," and if it falls a bit short of its predecessor's headlong exhilaration, it still delivers a good helping of the right stuff. Chief among its virtues is the killer band that Parton has mostly retained from the first album, especially the remarkable Jerry Douglas on dobro and Stuart Duncan on fiddle. The ease with which these young veterans propel winners such as "Seven Bridges Road" carries over to and elevates less inspiring selections like Collective Soul's "Shine...
Neither can consumers, who suddenly face an astonishing variety of Tibetan products, mostly from Chinese state-run companies. Last year's new goodies included Tibet Grass brand ginseng-berry juice, a sorghum liquor called Tibet Fragrant Spring and Tibetan Highland barley wine. "Chinese like our drink because of Tibet's mysterious feelings," says Zai Shudong, who bought ads on national TV for his company's sorghum brew. Trendies in Shanghai can shop for Tibetan jewelry at boutiques just off the glitziest commercial street. At the Traditional Tibetan Medicine Hospital in Beijing, director Renwang Ciren spent a recent morning tending...
...face of Democratic opposition. But his biggest distraction may come from Republican rival John McCain, who is poised to launch an all-out battle on behalf of his favorite issue, campaign-finance reform. McCain will reintroduce his signature bill in the Senate this week and unveil a new grass-roots organization, Americans for Reform, to browbeat Congress into passing his ban on soft-money contributions. Bush, who hates the bill, plans to meet with McCain on Wednesday to try to talk him into delaying a vote until later in the year...
...Afterward one of the girls sat on the grass combing her wet hair. I asked her what aspect of tribal culture her display was meant to illustrate. "We are Burman ladies washing and playing with water," she explained sweetly...