Word: leafed
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...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 beauty is so nice you may not even want to read the damn thing...
...Those living around the plant were promised that privatization would benefit them as well. But the barefoot children in torn clothing walking along the dirt road past wooden board and banana-leaf shacks are evidence that the poor's lives remained virtually unchanged...
...electrician at Nyborg Electric on 40th Street, in Manhattan's garment district. He was put in charge of servicing the showrooms of clothing firms, giving him a peek at fashion design in process. At night he moonlighted as a salesman at a Greenwich Village clothing boutique called Fig Leaf that was open until 2 a.m. Tahari began making suggestions to the owner about items that he thought would sell. Many of them, including the tube top, took off. Tahari realized he had an eye for fashion trends...
...most complex works, “Sacrifice,” itself consists of 24 different pieces, each a beautiful album leaf covered with a rendering of the Chinese mountainside. To make the leaves, Li Junyi forsook a standard brush for a gridded stamping technique that some have likened to the work of contemporary American artist Chuck Close. Li’s unusually geometric depictions of the landscape present a squarely classical subject through the lens of an entirely new technique. An accompanying label notes that Li created “Sacrifice” to commemorate students who died...
...roughly 700 men is the most dramatic step taken so far by Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki's government to deal with its corrupt and inept security forces. But TIME's correspondents in Baghdad, Aparisim Ghosh and Brian Bennett, warn that this may be no more than a fig leaf, designed to shore up al-Maliki's political standing, rather than the start of a substantial cleanup...