Word: tulip
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...Willig is engrossed in the twists and turns in the latest manuscript of her second historical romance novel—The Masque of the Black Tulip...
Late one afternoon in May, a large group of people wearing name tags gathered under the shade of a giant tulip poplar tree on the south terrace of Monticello. As the last of the day's tourists were taken by shuttle bus down the winding, single-lane road leading away from the hilltop home, this lingering band nibbled on cheese cubes and sipped red wine as they admired the building's imposing white columns and soaring rotunda. These lingerers were more than tourists, more than guests. They were Jefferson's family. Many breathed a sigh of relief that the 90?...
...1960s and tweaking them with just a touch of the avant garde. Rising-star designers like Nicolas Ghesquière of Balenciaga and the supremely talented Junya Watanabe, a protégé of Rei Kawakubo, both mixed the past with the present - showing shrunken jackets over full, tulip-shaped skirts, or, in Watanabe's case, pumping up the strictly tailored 1950s couture jacket by cutting it from down-filled nylon. Watanabe called his clothes "classic in all senses, regardless of the period." And his mix of hip-hop inspired baggy denim and snug jackets - cut to resemble Christian Dior...
...vintage garb and shoes alongside co-owner Emma Fletcher's Lyell line of "vintage-inspired clothes." A circa 1960 Kelly green butterfly-print dress by Japanese designer Hanae Mori and a '70s-era black pleated skirt with a red Provencal-print border hang beside Fletcher's new collection of tulip-print, silk-chiffon tie blouses, velvet jackets lined in silk and '40s-style dresses (the designer's personal favorite: a black silk-and-wool number with deer-shaped cutouts just below the collarbone...
...baby girls is that many villages and towns lack brides for their young men. (In one of the film's sequences, a village patriarch pays dearly to marry his son off to a heavily veiled stranger who is ultimately revealed as a man.) So when the beautiful Kalki (Tulip Joshi) reaches a marriageable age and her father demands 100,000 rupees for his prize, a village father pays him 500,000 to make her the wife of all five of his grown sons. Each son will have one night a week with her, and father will have...