Word: tulipe
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NEXT TIME, I WILL HIT YOU WITH A TULIP...
...Interior of the Nieuwe Kerk in Delft with the Tomb of William the Silent, 1650, is composed with fanatical, emphatic strictness and gave rise to a whole dynasty of memorial church interiors. There were a few fine flower painters, like Balthasar van der Ast, whose elaborate portrait of variegated tulips in a vase could not, as the catalog interestingly points out, have been done from life. (At the height of the Dutch tulip mania, such rare blooms would never have been cut for a painter; he would have had to draw them in the garden.) One of Rembrandt's more...
...misery loves company, investors hammered by the current slump in tech stocks can take solace in the tale of one of the original financial bubbles. The "Tulip Mania" exhibition at the Norton Simon Museum in Pasadena, Calif. (through July 23), displays a collection of watercolor paintings of tulips from the 1630s, along with intriguing information about the frenzy over them. During that decade, the price of a rare tulip bulb escalated to as much as 5,200 guilders. (By comparison, Rembrandt's fee for The Night Watch was 1,600 guilders.) Bulbs were used as dowries and exchanged for shiploads...
...left hand corner of a kiosk in the yard, a sign advertising “Let’s Go Amsterdam” asks passers-by, “Want to Pluck a Tulip?” with a photograph of a teenage female figure staring alluringly at her audience. Just a joke...
Starring Bruce Willis and Matthew Perry, the film tells the story of what happens when your unassuming dentist Nicholas "Oz" Oseransky (Perry) finds that his new next-door neighbor is former notorious hitman Jimmy the Tulip (Willis). What ensues is a madcap plot involving the fact that Jimmy, his former boss Janni Gogolak (Kevin Pollack) and his estranged wife Cynthia (Natasha Henstridge) have ten million dollars tied up in an account only all three can sign for; of course, if anyone dies among the three, only the remaining signatures are needed. Jimmy on the other hand is an unwilling captive...