Hard bargaining would be needed to whittle down this year's eye-popping $86,608.51 tab to give the gifts repetitively — including several flocks of swans — if the carol's verses were scrupulously followed.
Starring the Argentinian ballerina Marianela Nuñez in the hugely challenging dual-role of Odette/Odile, with Vadim Muntagirov as Prince Siegfried, the ballet is a showcase for the whole Company, who dazzle in full royal finery during the ball at the palace and in delicate feathered tutus as flocks of swans in the unforgettable scenes at the moonlit lake.
Another group of construction workers in Wallasey, Merseyside used a digger to help the RSPCA rescue a flock of swans.
Arising in the morning, he was moved by the sight of a flock of swans on the Liffey river.
The white-and-gray wallpaper is transformed into different colors, often green and blue, by Natasha Katz's spectacular lighting, and James Buckhouse's projections introduce a moving flock of swans on those walls.
CRAMMED into this year's field of 10 best picture Oscar nominees are British aristocrats, Volvo-driving Los Angeles lesbians, a flock of swans, a gaggle of Harvard computer geeks, clans of Massachusetts fighters and Missouri meth dealers, as well as 19th-century bounty hunters, dream detectives and animated toys.
I'd just be marvelling at a turn of phrase ("the earthed lightning of a flock of swans"... "catch the heart off guard and blow it open") and allowing it to sink in, and he'd be a couple of verses away already.
Swan Lake tells the story of Prince Siegfried, who chances upon a flock of swans while out hunting.
Along the way, Steve boils an egg by volcano, shares his hot spring with a flock of swans and meets some feisty macaque monkeys on the beach.
Along the way, he boils an egg by volcano, shares his hot spring with a flock of swans and meets feisty macaque monkeys on the beach.
