Word: orchid
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...time she had managed to pull that research into a New Yorker article and a book, Orlean had a critically acclaimed bestseller on her hands: 1998’s The Orchid Thief...
...movie, a character named Susan Orlean (played by Meryl Streep) intrepidly investigates the work of eccentric orchid thief John Laroche (Chris Cooper) for a New Yorker article and a book. She also snorts psychotropic orchid extracts, brandishes—and fires—a gun and poses nude for a website while engaged in an affair with Laroche...
China may finally be coming clean about its burgeoning AIDS problem, but health officials in the ravaged province of Henan are still behaving as if the epidemic were a dirty secret. Last month, more than 100 armed police stormed the NGO-run Orchid Orphan School in the city of Shangqiu, a boarding school for AIDS orphans (some of whom are HIV-positive), and whisked the students away on a truck. Two volunteers were detained for "causing social disorder." The local health bureau says the school was closed because it never applied for an operating license. But school founder...
...floating around,” in Gondry’s words, before heading into production. Kaufman recalls that he and Gondry pitched the idea for Sunshine just a week after he received a contract to write a screenplay based on Susan Orlean’s non-fiction book The Orchid Thief—a writing project that, if we are to believe Adaptation, quickly became something of an existential nightmare. And shortly after getting the green light on the Sunshine project, the author and director say they threw themselves into 2001’s Human Nature, Gondry?...
After writing about plants in her acclaimed book, The Orchid Thief, Orlean has moved on to animals, penning a piece on Keiko, the whale from Free Willy, for the New Yorker. She also interviewed a woman in New Jersey who kept close to 30 pet tigers. “People have an appetite for exotic things—it’s kind of an enduring issue in human nature.” Both accounts are collected in her new book, Homewrecker: Travel Stories from a Woman Who’s Been Everywhere, which will come out in November...