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...substance of the romance is thus intimated through Swann's memory, and a series of visual clues. As the patterns become apparent, Swann smelling an orchid cradled between Odette's breasts, for example, takes on heavy sexual significance; the code words 'doing an orchid' mean making love for the pair. At this stage of the game, Odette is "always available...
...Government's glossy brochure offers 19 different sites. There is the high-tech Xanadu in Fort Lauderdale, with poolside bar and five bathrooms with French bidets. Other bidders may prefer a six-bedroom oceanfront estate in Vero Beach, with orchid ballroom, hand-painted wood floors and swimming pool; the cunning security system permits leisurely monitored strolls across the seven-acre compound. The GSA, which placed discreet ads in major newspapers in the U.S. and abroad, has received inquiries from as far away as Europe and China. Says GSA Officer Howard DeVane: "They all know a good deal when they...
Throughout his 35-year teaching career and during his 15-year residence in the remote regions of the Amazon jungle--including some regions which are accessible only by plane or boat--he has pioneered several areas: rubber plant studies, crop development, narcotics and orchid study. He has also identified, classified and conducted experiments with approximately 24,000 plant species. In all, he has brought back to Harvard more than 48,000 varieties of plants from areas ranging from Mexico to Afghanistan...
Wearing an orchid corsage the size of a catcher's mitt, the stooped honoree attended the whole symposium, a taxing thing when you consider the hard slogging certain scholars can subject an audience to. "I just feel like, well, it's all for me, and it would be rude to miss one of the speakers," she said early on. "I can just hear my mother saying, 'Girl, you're getting a little too much attention,' " she said toward...
William Hambrecht: Green Thumb. Hambrecht feels a great sense of accomplishment when he picks a bunch of ripe, juicy Zinfandel grapes from his 140-acre vineyard in Sonoma County, Calif., or clips a dazzling orchid in his San Francisco greenhouse. "I like to grow things," he says...