BEAUTY IN THE MAKING; FLOATS HONOR PAST, DEPICT THE FUTURE.Byline: Deborah Sullivan Daily News Staff Writer Under a billowing bil·low n. 1. A large wave or swell of water. 2. A great swell, surge, or undulating mass, as of smoke or sound. v. bil·lowed, bil·low·ing, bil·lows v.intr. 1. white tent Sunday, Adele Diaz meticulously pasted tiny seeds onto a Rose Parade float in hopes of promoting world peace. With a ton and a half of dried seeds, some 10,000 flowers and gallons of glue, Diaz and other volunteers re-created a rolling, floral replica of Jerusalem's Western Wall for the Simon Wiesenthal Simon Wiesenthal, KBE, (Buczacz, December 31, 1908 – Vienna, September 20, 2005) was an Austrian-Jewish architectural engineer who hunted down Nazi war criminals, after surviving the Holocaust. Center's Museum of Tolerance The Museum of Tolerance is a multimedia museum in Los Angeles, California, with an associated museum in New York City, designed to examine racism and prejudice in the United States and the world with a strong focus on the history of the Holocaust. . The float, named ``Jerusalem, City of Peace,'' honors the holy city's three religious traditions of Judaism, Islam and Christianity with images of a mosque, the Christian wall called the Via Dolorosa Via Dolorosa Christ’s route to Calvary. [Christianity: Brewer Dictionary, 112] See : Passion of Christ and the Jewish Western Wall. It is one of about 50 floats that will appear in the annual Tournament of Roses parade The Tournament of Roses Parade was established, and first held, on January 1,1890, in Pasadena, California, eight miles (13 km) northeast of Downtown Los Angeles. Rooted in tradition, this parade is broadcast on multiple television networks, watched by upwards of one on New Year's Day New Year's Day, among ancient peoples the first day of the year frequently corresponded to the vernal or autumnal equinox, or to the summer or winter solstice. In the Middle Ages it was celebrated among Christians usually on Mar. 25. , which this year will follow the theme ``Echos of the Century.'' The Western Wall has been the object of religious conflict and contrition con·tri·tion n. Sincere remorse for wrongdoing; repentance. See Synonyms at penitence. Noun 1. contrition - sorrow for sin arising from fear of damnation contriteness, attrition throughout millenniums. It formed the courtyard of the Jewish holy temple in biblical times but switched between Arab and Jewish control for many centuries before becoming part of the state of Israel in 1967. The float aims to capture those historic and religious roots of the site. ``We want it to reflect Israel,'' said float designer Susie Garcia. ``When you're looking at this, we wanted you to feel like you're looking at something ancient, that has history behind it.'' For Diaz, 68, the float recalls the human price of religious strife. ``Being older, I realized that you have to speak up about intolerance in the world,'' said the Pasadena resident. ``And the float is symbolic of that.'' At the original holy site, worshippers plead for peace by placing small written prayers amid the wall's stones. On the float, the notes will be made of gladiola buds, in keeping with the parade's stricture stricture /stric·ture/ (strik´chur) stenosis. stric·ture n. A circumscribed narrowing of a hollow structure. that all external materials be made of plants or flowers. Real prayers, hand-written by float volunteers or sent to the Wiesenthal Center's Internet site by people throughout the world, will travel the length of the parade route in the interior of the float, Garcia said. They will later be placed in the real Western Wall in Jerusalem. While the Museum of Tolerance float looks back at antiquity, the Cal Poly Cal Poly may refer to:
A surfer, clad in Hawaiian print trunks, rides the wave of online information, colored with irises, delphinium delphinium: see larkspur. and roses, followed by a globe. The scene is framed by a giant laptop computer. ``The Internet is a very big part of what our generation is coming from,'' said Katie Aebi, a Cal Poly student and floral production chairwoman for the float. ``It was more personal for us than doing something from earlier in the century.'' The floats, in the early stages of construction Sunday, were sheltered by a white tent the size of an airplane hangar near the Rose Bowl, abuzz with hundreds of volunteers. Beside the Cal Poly float was the Rotary Float titled ``Service is Timeless,'' which depicted a family of young rabbits dining at a soup kitchen as an older rabbit ladles the broth. ``We wanted to do something whimsical this year'' while celebrating Rotary's theme of service, said Herb Trumbolt, a Rotary official coordinating the float project. ``You can only be serious so long before you have to have some fun.'' CAPTION(S): 2 Photos, Map Photo: (1) Joseph Andrade of El Monte El Monte (ĕl mŏn`tē), city (1990 pop. 106,209), Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1912. A residential, industrial, and commercial city in the San Gabriel Valley, El Monte manufactures furniture, electronic equipment, semiconductors, paints a giant hand on the Michelin float titled ``100 years of Transportation'' that is being readied for the Tournament of Roses parade. (2) Abraham Valdez of Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. works on rabbits for the Rotary Club's float, ``Service is Timeless.'' Evan Yee/Daily News Map: FLOAT DECORATION Beginning Today, parade fans can watch floats being decorated. A festival will run 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. Today and Tuesday; 7 a.m. to 8 p.m. Wednesday; and 7 a.m. to 4 p.m. Thursday near the Rose Bowl. FLOAT VIEWING SITES (1) Brookside Pavilion on west side of Rose Bowl (2) Rosemont Pavilion at 700 Seco St. (3) Rose Palace at 835 S. Raymond Ave. There will also be viewings at the Buena Vista Pavilion on 2100 Buena Vista St. in Duarte. The Tournament of Roses Bandfest featuring parade bands performing their routines will begin 1 p.m. Tuesday and Wednesday at the festival stage at the lower end of Rose Bowl Lot E. |
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