Word: wreath
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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LONDON: The Booker Prize, the laurel wreath offered annually to the most worthy tome written in Britain, Ireland or Commonwealth countries, has gone this year to first-time female novelist Arundhati Roy's ?The God of Small Things...
...create a Russian buffet for 24 guests featuring coulibiac of bass; to make egg topiaries; to etch their own glass; and to garnish their Easter hams with grass so fresh from the yard that the morning dew had yet to disappear. She upstaged First Lady Hillary Clinton in wreath making, and the First Lady of Cooking, Julia Child, in pastry making. And she has admitted, without reservation, her determination to take over Christmas. So revitalizing K Mart, the $32 billion discount-store dud, should be a piece of cake for Martha Stewart...
...used as decorations during the Chinese lunar new year festivities. At one corner, near Mao's Mausoleum, six teenagers played soccer with gusto. A few blocks away from the square, a group of residents walked up to the gate of Deng Xiaoping's city residence to offer a paper-wreath. Guards at the gate accepted the wreath and nervously told the visitors to go home." U.S. anaylsts believe that Deng's death in unlikely to cause any major shakeups, in part because the government had already adjusted to life without him. In part since China has decided not to invite...
...large bin of holiday pillows empties out almost as quickly as the staff can replenish it. Across the floor the supply of a dozen treadmills is getting dangerously low. And forget about buying an electric wreath or 3-D star for Christmas. Gone...
Again, Martha teaches us much while leaving us yearning for much more. We learn to make a variety of wreaths, all of which, astonishingly, are different from the ones displayed in her magazine's special November wreath issue. We see the holiday doyen package her Christmas cookies--alas, no recipes--in handsomely beribboned balsa-wood containers (not like those tacky doily-lined tins they throw at us on the Food Network). Best of all, we discover that Martha herself is far from infallible. "Do you know what I did last year?" she confides to her forester, "I covered my entire...