Word: gardenia
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...confessing activities that were less than green. “I drive to the store even though it is close enough for me to walk to,” read one confession. Boloco distributed biodegradable cups of compost made from the store’s organic waste filled with gardenia seeds. And as any party is incomplete without hors d’oeuvres, attendees were treated to food samples including chilled honeydew melon soup from Henrietta’s Table and chips, salsa, and guacamole from Chipotle. Nantucket Nectars—a beverage company based in Nantucket, Mass...
...said one special-forces soldier, sitting in the garden of a small mosque that the army had requisitioned. "They don't surrender. They will all fight to the end." A bareheaded major sat on a stool, two constantly ringing cell phones and a walkie-talkie before him, handing out gardenia blooms plucked from the mosque's garden. Nearly 200 meters away, beyond a dense orchard of orange trees, were the smoking ruins of the camp's buildings. In Lebanon, sadly, it's not a flower's fragrance but the acrid smell of smoke that lingers...
...bareheaded major sat on a stool among his soldiers, two constantly ringing cellphones and a walkie-talkie before him. He apologized for refusing to discuss the fighting with his visitors and instead handed out fragrant gardenia blooms plucked from the mosque's garden. Sitting among the soldiers were several civilians wearing bandoliers of ammunition and carrying a variety of automatic rifles. They were local Lebanese villagers, many of them ex-militiamen from Lebanon's 16-year civil war, who had volunteered to fight the militants alongside the army. "No sleep for three days," said one militiaman with a grim smile...
...name that created Chanel No. 5 is no small feat, but if anyone is up to the task, it's Jacques Polge, Chanel's talented perfumer since 1978. This month marks the introduction of Les Exclusifs de Chanel, an impressive fragrance collection comprising four classic scents?No. 22, Gardenia, Bois des Iles and Cuir de Russie?and six new ones created by Polge. Like many of Chanel's fragrances, all of the new scents, packaged in identical bottles, have names that relate uniquely to the iconography of the renowned house: 31 Rue Cambon is the address that was Mlle. Chanel...
Estelle Reiner looks like a typical 91-year-old grandmother--just over 5 ft. tall, dressed in a simple pantsuit and comfortable shoes. But once a month she gets up on the bandstand of the Gardenia restaurant in Hollywood and sings a very ungrandmotherly set of songs. The effect is equal parts surprise, delight and blushes. At a recent gig, she segued from Just a Little Lovin' to Ain't Misbehavin'. Then, before launching into I Want a Two-Fisted, Double-Jointed, Rough and Ready Man, she confided to the audience, "The man being sought here is only needed...