Word: petaled
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Fortunately for E.B. and the reader, Katharine White was not obsessed with petal detail. She bore no relation to the Mrs. Powers of Ogden Nash's poem, so preoccupied with flower arrangements that one day her spouse just...
When he looks into Delphine's eyes-"midway between the underside of a periwinkle petal and the heart of a violet"-Charlie feels up to anything Delphine suggests, including: Rob the bank...
...Beatle Ringo Starr and Designer Robin Cruikshank. "I had the conventional art-school training, but he comes up with some very unusual ideas," says Cruikshank of his partner. Among Starr's contributions: a doughnut-shaped fireplace and a table designed to look like a flower with petal seats that adjust in height. "With three children," says Ringo simply, "you think of these things...
...Bullins party jives. The people talk a vivid street idiom with the fluent opulence of jazz. Their moods dance. They make hot, sly, funny, drunken, sexy scenes together that have the cumulative impact of a seduction. Then they fall apart in revealing stop-motion monologues as if a petal were trying to be a flower...
Schumann's Kinderscenen found Horowitz in a rare introspective mood, capable of colors ranging from petal pastels to autumnal browns and beiges. Scriabin's Piano Sonata No. 5 was a vehicle for him to demonstrate that whereas other pianists concern themselves with degrees of loudness, he seems to be capable of a thousand variations in softness. Horowitz, perhaps our foremost Scriabin interpreter, learned this work last summer, and his performance could be faulted only for a certain underplaying of the ecstatic concluding pages...