Word: violets
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...March 1997, the Supreme Judicial Court overruled Barton's decision and ordered that the two women return to prison. In September of that year, Violet Amirault died of cancer and LeFave continued on alone in her quest for a new trial. She was not taken back to prison...
Ogletree has committed himself to the case of LeFave--who, along with her mother, Violet Amirault, was convicted in 1987 of raping and assaulting children enrolled in their family-owned Fells Acres Day Care Center in Malden. LeFave's brother, Gerald Amirault, was also convicted of similar charges in a separate trial...
...Road Warrior were filmed. Imagine standing in the predawn darkness on the rim of a cliff, 300 ft. above the desert floor. There are purply black mesas before and behind you. Exactly above the center of the largest one, you see Venus, the Morning Star, burning in a deep violet sky. Nothing moves. No wind, no sound, only bitter cold. As the light begins to glow on the eastern horizon, you see an immense desert plain, flat as water--it is, in fact, the bed of an ancient inland sea. And it stretches without interruption, without a building...
BLUE GENES Welcome to the brave new greenhouse. Last week Florigene, a biotech company based in Australia, launched its line of violet carnations, Moonshadow, which do not exist in nature but were genetically engineered using a gene from petunias. The company plans to release a black carnation (made with an eggplant gene) next year and eventually hopes to create blue-hued roses. Maybe one day it will even make people into Smurfs...
...crammed in with all these screaming teenage girls, only about three layers of sweating bodies from the stage. I can barely move, but no matter--I'm transfixed. Ani DiFranco is dipping under electric blue and violet light to the opening strains of "Virtue," from her 1999 release Up Up Up Up Up Up. Suddenly she swings up to the mike, fingers flashing over the strings of her guitar. Her voice alternately cracks with anger and melts with intimacy. She sways as if weaving her entire being into the music, threading herself through the thrust of drums, bass and organ...