Organizers like Mr. Chin and Rose Pak, the influential consultant for the Chinese Chamber of Commerce who helped engineer Mr. Lee's appointment as mayor, also forged alliances with business interests and the political establishment that would prove critical.
Here is Gertrude Jekyll in a highly influential passage on growing climbing roses into trees: For spaces between garden and wild, for sloping banks, for broken ground, as of an old gravel pit or other excavation, for all sorts of odds and ends of unclassified places about the home grounds, the rambling and free-growing roses seem to be offered us by a specially benevolent horticultural providence.
At least that's how it felt when Axl Rose, the sneering frontman who once used similar language to welcome listeners to the jungle, was wheeled onstage for the first full-scale concert in a much-hyped reunion tour by his influential hard-rock band, Guns N' Roses.
That was over the protests of vocal and influential neighborhood groups that surround the Rose Bowl.
Not only has it got recordings of residents Mike Pickering and Graeme Park, but it's also got clips of visiting DJs such as Chicago innovator Frankie Knuckles and influential English rock band The Stone Roses playing live at the venue.
(Even though the Fort Greene, Boerum Hill and Park Slope residents who flock to BAM Rose may be every bit as influential as their Manhattan counterparts).
But the most influential allegorical work in French was the Roman de la rose (The Romance of the Rose), where courtly love is first celebrated, then undermined.
In May, Huffington attended the Time 100 Gala, a banquet affair at Rose Hall at Jazz at Lincoln Center, honoring "the most influential people in the world".
I bump into Cressa, who was the Stone Roses' dancer back in the day and an influential figure.
Two monumentally influential jazz arrangers get their due with programs at Jazz at Lincoln Center's Rose Theatre.
