Word: petaling
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...liberated Iraqis were crucial to the plan, since the Bush team counted on those images to help persuade Saddam's army to surrender, inspire civilians across the country to rise against the regime and defuse global opposition to the U.S. campaign. Iraqis may yet exhibit gratitude, but the "rose petal and rice" scenario hasn't materialized yet. This doesn't hurt too much on the battlefield, but it is a real setback in the political arena...
...other books! Call me a sucker for escapist fiction, if you will. I take refuge in reading; I’m Matilda; I’m the baby who loves a bunch of authors. I eat a leisurely meal while leafing through Michel Faber’s The Crimson Petal and the White, and my blockmates sigh in envy, perpetually mourning the death of pleasure reading in college and wistfully nostalgic about the good old days when reading for fun wasn’t something fueled by the Improbability Drive of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy...
...Like every year, this Valentine’s Day Gossip Guy cuddled up with heart-shaped lies, chocolate rumors and rose-petal innuendo?...
...usually reserved for women on their wedding day. My masseuse led me to a garden bungalow, where she massaged my knotted muscles with aromatic oils, then polished my skin with lulur, a traditional exfoliating paste made from pounded rice, turmeric and local spices. After a soak in a rose petal milk bath, I finished in the cedar-scented steam room. Relaxed, oiled and burnished, I floated blissfully back to my hotel on a curry-scented cloud. Had anyone asked, I would have married the first person to propose...
...near Place Vendôme, Paris. Only around 70 unique pieces are hand made every year, and this is the first time his work has been shown to the public. Rosenthal, 60, is famous for creating a pavement of tiny stones that enables subtle color gradations on a flower petal or insect wing. Some pieces are almost grotesquely large, some tiny and delicate. (The cheapest retails for around $1,000.) Diamond "strings" are twisted into snowflakes or lace fans. There's a (brooch-size) horse's head, a zebra with ostrich plumes and a sinister sheep with sapphire eyes. Fran...