Word: bougainvillea
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Even then, the boy who spoke and read Japanese before learning Portuguese was melding cultures. In his fan paintings, Fukuda used bright red, reflecting the brilliant tones of the raw coffee berries and the bougainvillea shrubs that illuminated the South American topography that surrounded him. The tropical palette has become his trademark. "If I don't use red, the painting seems somewhat deadened," he says. But he adds, "No tone can fight against another tone. There must be harmony." In a painting he completed this year, Composition on a Red Background, he contrasts his reds with calmer gray and brown...
...grass and malodorous toilets. That's not Indio. The 424 campsites wrap around a golf course. At the center of the complex is a clubhouse with an Olympic-size swimming pool, four tennis courts and a health spa with masseuse. Gardeners tend a cheerful landscape of date palms, bougainvillea, hibiscus and petunias...
...rodent-like life of the island's defenders, who live underground in tunnels that riddle the granite hills. Everywhere partly obscured metal doors lead to steps down narrow, intermittently lit passages with an oddly clammy warmth. Some carefully managed routes surface beneath concrete emplacements prettily enshrouded in bougainvillea. Other tunnels meander for kilometers to hideouts set in cliff sides, where you can gaze through slits in the concrete across waters dotted by fishing boats at the not-so-distant shoreline where other tourists stare back...