On a warm spring day in Tehran, against a backdrop of roses, fountains and the snow-capped Alborz mountains, hundreds of thousands of people have gathered for what organisers bill as the world's biggest book fair.
Against a backdrop of rose-petal music, it spans four minutes panning over perfectly parked cars, in a perfectly manicured parking lot, with people strolling toward the sparkling new stadium along tree-lined walkways.
THE wreaths, the sprays and the clusters of creamy white flowers -- even an elegant boot fashioned out of rose petals -- made a fitting backdrop at l'?lise Saint-Roch for the departure of Fran?s Lesage, the artist of embroidery, mourned on Dec. 7 in the world of Paris couture.
Set against the backdrop of the war of the roses, The White Queen is a collaboration between the BBC and Starz, internationally renowned home of the internationally preposterous costume epic.
As recently as the 1980s, it was so reminiscent of a village laid bare by hard times that Woody Allen chose it for the backdrop of his 1985 movie "The Purple Rose of Cairo," which takes place during the Great Depression.
On the site, a field of rose of Sharon, South Korea's national flower, gives a backdrop to a photograph of Hwang holding Snuppy, the Afghan hound he cloned earlier this year.
Cameron sketched Jack's nude portrait of Rose for a scene which he feels has the backdrop of repression.
Opener Jonny O'the Brine gallops to a tabla rhythm, Bonny Bunch of Roses drifts on a backdrop of flutes, fiddles and a crackling east European 78, while Lovely Molly uses a full choir.
Her mural at Rose Avenue and 4th Street in Venice — a close-up of a woman's open mouth painted freestyle with a purple-and-aqua backdrop, with roses for the woman's eyes added later — sparked a fluid mural aesthetic she's still building.
Compendium of Rose Diseases.
