• Lech Walesa, a shipyard worker, walked into her flower shop one day, and the rest is history.

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  • However, Ms Greenacre faces the prospect of getting married without her two bridesmaids and her flower girl because they were not able to travel to Birkenhead.

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  • In this case, though, the Nobel Committee may have made a significant, if altogether unintended, contribution to the cause of peace if its spotlight on Jody Williams and her Flower Child crusade encourages sensible legislators to join President Clinton in heeding instead the sound advice of the U.S. military on banning landmines.

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  • She wears a flower behind her ear, a modest adornment, which suggests she was a member of the household rather than a patrician matron displaying her wealth.

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  • With American ambassador to Malaysia John Malott on the piano and with a flower in her hair, Albright, 60, staged her own version of Andrew Lloyd Webber's hit Don't Cry for Me Argentina.

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  • The woman appears to have once held a flower in her right hand, until the painter began to rework it into a fan indicated by a blur of white paint and the upward gaze of her child.

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  • And as I followed her, in this way, past the flower gardens, I realized that her movements were similar to mine, that she, too, was trying to protect something fragile, something that might fall and shatter into pieces, and that needed thus to be led toward a place where it could settle gently, something that she could not touch but could only guide with her gestures: the moon.

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  • At Linwood Park, where Patty sometimes organized athletics for the kids, Connie sat by herself on the grass, unbored, her hands fashioning a clover-flower ring for nobody, and let the minutes stream past her until Joey took his turn at bat or moved the soccer ball down the field and quickened her interest momentarily.

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  • The same quality is apparent in her new book, An Invisible Flower, out now by Chimera Library.

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  • Her face was soft, like flower petals.

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  • In Varanasi, her guests travel on the river in flower-decked boats with musicians instead of just watching from the riverbanks as other travelers do.

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  • "She'd compare a step to a flower, or take off her necklace and say how all the beads have to be perfectly put together to form the whole (dance) variation, " said Lola Cooper, a Carolina Ballet dancer who studied with Kostritzky at the School of American Ballet.

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  • She and her husband installed a vegetable and edible-flower garden, including nasturtiums and violas.

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  • In the final 20 minutes they meet in an astonishing duet that allows their discrete virtues to flower: his expressive lightness, her remarkable sinuousness.

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  • All of the pieces are embellished with filigree petal cut stones, honoring the Grace de Monaco pink rose, a flower named after Kelly in 1956 for her wedding day.

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  • Unbeknownst to her, she was at the forefront of a local flower-eating movement.

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  • We tip our hat to Jennifer Garner for starting this trend when she named her firstborn sweet, sassy Violet (Latin, purple flower).

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  • She took a flower from someone in the crowd and placed it in her hair.

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  • She held a thin stick in her hand and was drawing with it in the sand, bringing a flower to life petal by grainy petal.

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  • She spends most of her workday in her living room, which is filled with colorful collections fresh flower arrangements, vintage cookie jars, gnomes, Russian nesting dolls, crochet-covered exercise balls and piles of Technicolor crocheted afghans, all of which serve as inspirations for the bright color mixtures in her art.

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  • The delicate flower, which, appropriately, can be found in a rainbow of colors, was named after her since every time she set foot on terra firma, a field of them would instantly spring up.

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