Word: petaling
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Think of time as a small stream scattered with flowers and flowing relentlessly past. Pick up a petal. Examine it, savor it, press it away between the pages of private memory. That's photography. Its birth was announced in 1839, when the French Academy made public Louis Jacques Mande Daguerre's new process for fixing images on a metal plate and, a few months later, Englishman William Henry Fox Talbot broke the news of his own separate process. Since then, photography has been the best way of making time stand still...
...climbed to the top of the Billboard jazz chart. The Truth Is Spoken Here is a dexterous and loving homage, "a tribute," Roberts says, "to the artists who were the masters of the form." There are two Ellington compositions, In a Mellow Tone and a supernal rendition of Single Petal of a Rose, and a version of Thelonious Monk's classic Blue Monk that Roberts brings off with such light witchery that the song sounds reborn. Truth (which also boasts five Roberts originals) has all the well-studied funk of the new jazz as performed by the likes of Wynton...
...Single Petal of A Rose" further demonstrates Roberts' versatility as a performer. On this piece he combines the influences of both jazz and classical music. The song takes on a very dramatic, heavy tone due to Roberts' piano. "Rose" provides a nice contrast to other more light and snappy tunes on the album...
...communication standard (HCS) was expanded to cover 70 million employees of 4.5 million companies that merely use the chemicals. The paperwork to inform so many people of every conceivable peril is enough to swamp some small businesses; florists, for instance, may need ten to 20 pieces of paper per petal that has been treated with chemicals by their suppliers. OSHA official Frank White stoutly defends the HCS. But last week he conceded at a congressional hearing, "Perhaps we underestimated, as we sometimes do, the magnitude and sweep of this rule...
...Welsh) proclaimed Elizabeth Taylor, 50, arms outstretched, as she swept across the stage of London's Duke of York's Theater toward her two-time former husband Richard Burton, 56. Burton, who was giving a reading from Dylan Thomas, cooed back: "Say it again, my petal. Say it again." The lady complied, and lo, with all the eye-rolling gaucherie of a Groucho Marx-Margaret Dumont coupling, LizanDick were, gasp, together again. She was in London for the West End run of her Broadway hit The Little Foxes. At a lavish 50th birthday party thrown in her honor...