Word: floridation
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...This tiny, troll-like creature likes to be called Geremia Heart-of-Gold, and he certainly has a florid line of patter for the desperate townspeople of Agro Pontino who come to borrow money at 100% interest, telling each woman, "My last thought in life will be of you." (He's proud of his old-school manners, telling the matchmaker, "My tool of seduction is my charming mode of speech." She corrects him: "Your only tool of seduction is hope.") But when repayment is overdue, Geremia has no heart at all. He strips one young couple of every piece...
...Record producer Crewe (Peter Gregus) hires the guys, but his florid style doesn't match their earth tones. After one take, he says of the harmony, "I hear it in sky blue. You're giving me brown." Tommy snaps, "That's because you're paying us shit." In desperation they look for guidance from above and see the name of the next joint they're playing, Four Seasons Lounge, in neon against the night sky. In my favorite bit of dialogue from the show, Frankie exclaims, "It's a sign!" (Given all the rim-shot repartee in this show...
...beard a labile, gratuitous beauty of texture akin to Monet; while, seen close up, the stubbled, worn face of Sherman is not a military mask but a psychological study as deep, in its way, as Rodin's Balzac. There are weak things in this show, and not a few florid ones; and by its nature, it cannot give Saint-Gaudens' monuments the coverage they need. But no matter: the illusions it dispels make up for the works it omits--and fresh converts to Saint-Gaudens can seek those out for themselves. --By Robert Hughes
...wedding transforms normally reasonable folk into lunatics. But Chien-Chi Chang has taken that experience a step further?he's making art out of the insanity. In his 2002 book I Do, I Do, I Do, the Taiwan-born, New York-based photographer cast a jaundiced eye on the florid excesses of the wedding industry in his native island: the countless gaudy outfits thrown on and off for the wedding portrait, the banquet dinner that could fill the hangar of an aircraft carrier. Chang's perceptive photos showed the ordinary, exhausted people buried beneath the heavy makeup, the costumes...
...beguile America, one day with images of the mysterious East, the next with snapshots of God-fearing, Westernized democrats battling the Red Menace. While Harvard-educated T.V. wheedled millions out of his poker buddies in Washington, Wellesley Graduate May-ling wooed Congress with her slit skirt and florid rhetoric. In the process, the Soongs also hypnotized such powerful cheerleaders as Henry Luce and Columnist Joseph Alsop, who saw in them the lineaments of a progressive new China, ready to enter the American Century...