Word: bougainvillea
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Pushed into history's backwaters, the Portuguese have quietly tenanted one of the loveliest of lands, the long Atlantic coast, the purple-brown hills, the tall pines and the gardens of roses, carnations and bougainvillea which they tend with rare skill...
...flourishing prewar artists' colony: Belgian Adrien Jean Le Mayeur, 66, and Swiss Theo Meier, 38. They told no harrowing stories of hunger sieges, frozen feet or welted backs. Painter Le Mayeur had lived through the war in a tile-floored seaside villa overhung with purplish-pink bougainvillea blossoms. His studio was a garden perfumed by the powerful scent of the frangipani tree. His model was his youthful wife, Polok, once one of Bali's best-known native dancers. When the war cut off his supply of oils and canvas, Le Mayeur improvised a new medium. He painted with...
Orange marigolds flirted in a brittle wind. Between the villa, a tennis court and an ancient castle, bougainvillea sprawled purple over faded garden walls. Carabinieri in tricorn hats, Italian sailors in blue woolens guarded the villa. By the grace of the U.S. and Britain, the King and the Marshal held power in four of the liberated provinces 'in Apulia, the heel of Italy.* Given power by the Allies, they were no more than puppets charged with the task of fashioning a government that would cause the Allies no trouble, and, incidentally, provide stability until all Italy is liberated...
...made of Roquefort" and an "asthmatic and dribbly" Pekingese with eyes "completely outside of his head." In Haiti he meets the elderly lady tourist ("white hair, white shoes, white shawl . . . like . . . the whitewashed front of the hotel") and her ravishing Irish maid, on whose head admiring Frenchmen coyly dropped bougainvillea blossoms. In Paris and Manhattan he meets the Polish photographer Zygmunt Pisik, whose German mistress changed his name to Johann von Schönberg to start him off right. His French mistress pushed him right up the ladder by making him Henri de Beaumont. He became famous for his studies...
...show at Manhattan's Ferargil Galleries. Technically expert, untroubled by surrealist neuroses, social struggle or pneumatic nudes, Dike's splashy water colors of mountains, windswept beaches, palm-plumed countryside were sometimes reminiscent of Japanese landscape prints, were as brightly lush as a Montecito bougainvillea...