She who crimsoned at rude words finds herself yielding to the lascivious glances of a mysterious stranger, none other than Leopold Bloom.
Recipe supplied by Olga Irez, deliciousistanbul.com The Arabic title of this pesto-like dip, muhammara, means reddened or crimsoned.
When he gives a talk at Barnard, a "sweet creature" cozies up to him and coos in his ear, "How do you like being the belle of New York?" "It was so true, and so gratifying, that it crimsoned me with blushes, and I could make no reply," he writes.
Draped across the crimson plush sill of a box in the lower circle is a banner that reads "How Sad is Prudence".
On Seventh St, the Grand's pergola flows with gnarled crimson grapevine and its courtyards are dotted with Italianate fountains.
Yet I spend half an hour staring into the crimson whirlpool, hypnotised: the best attributes a gadget can have are elegance of function, and fascination.
An English voice said, 'Isn't it completely wonderful?' A milky woman with crimson pigtails was smiling down at him.
"There's red siskin, bearded tachuri, harpy eagle, crimson fruit crow, cock of the rock, macaw, Rio Branco ant bird," said Duane Junior when I asked him what some of the brightly coloured birds I'd seen were.
Bullets rip into flesh, which flies out in messy chunks as blood spatters walls and falls like crimson rain on nicely arranged white flowers – on and on it goes, bang-bang-bang, spatter-spatter-spatter, mercilessly, while we, a grey-haired audience on a Wednesday afternoon, break open our foil-wrapped carrot cake and drain the dregs of our cappuccinos.
Furthermore, as the show progressed, there were deliberate winks from the hair and makeup team, surely designed to emphasise links with Galliano's past collections: oiled and lacquered 1940s curls, and mouths painted into rosebud Kabuki-kisses of blood-red crimson.
The Air Niugini planes used to be painted in dazzling bright crimsons, oranges, yellows and greens to depict the plumage of the bird of paradise, the national symbol.
