I am ashamed to admit I also buy at least three of the large, lush and perfectly crimson red thirty-dollar-a-pop plants each year so that makes almost fifteen poinsettias.
There was a little blood red, mixed with dollar green.
They include assemblages made from bent and dirty railroad signs or green and white highway signs; the torn-off back of a train car with a stainless steel bedpan inserted into a rectangular opening near the middle; and a soaring arrangement of torn and battered parts of a billboard-size sign with big red letters and dollar signs on a yellow ground.
The sector joined the rest of the European market apart from miners to close in the red, as the dollar weakened and the price of oil soared above $107.00 a barrel.
When the visuals are stripped away: the luxury cars, the penthouse apartments, the cars, the hotel suites, the cars, the million dollar red room, the cars, the cloud hopping and the cars, one is left with a pulp romance formula consisting of one down-trodden, moneyed maleable man and one moralizing sex-pot angel.
Born Cassius Clay in Jim Crow-era Louisville, Kentucky, he was a skinny, quick-witted kid, the son of a sign painter and a house cleaner, who learned to box at the age of twelve to avenge the indignity of a stolen bicycle, a sixty-dollar red Schwinn that he could not bear to lose.
As stocks drifted into the red, so did the dollar.
They say Mr. Sarkozy will be asking Mr. Obama what his "red lines" on the dollar are.
Favorite dishes on the luncheon menu include beignets of crayfish and mushrooms ($14.50, at 7.53 francs to the dollar) and red fruits in sabayon sauce ($6.50).
