The bract at the base is dry and papery, often lacerate near its apex.

Yes sir! Here it is! The dope on the latest epidemic of femalia (or femania or what you will) that has swept this section of the building

Rich and strange in detail, magnanimous yet unsparing in tone, it presents an unairbrushed portrait of two quarreling middle-aged Ukrainian-English sisters, Vera and Nadia, who reconcile to save their stubborn father from a disastrous late marriage.

Tolzmann argues that it is not necessarily the most perceived 'global' city that actually gets to host the Games.