Word: floridation
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...sketch of Hemingway hangs opposite her desk.A friend of her father's dashed it off in a hotelbar in the Spain in the 1950s. Hemingway washaving a drink. He took it over to have it signed.On a piece of hotel stationery a florid hand haswritten "From the Old Man." Once a spontaneousact, it now serves to motivate...
While adding exotic new creeds, the tide of immigration since the 1960s has also increased the variegation within Christianity. Millions of Hispanics have brought a florid, fervent Latin sensibility into U.S. Catholicism, challenging a church hierarchy dominated by the stolid sons and grandsons of Irish immigrants, who now are struggling to recruit Hispanic priests. The bishops also face Pentecostal or Baptist soul winners who successfully target Spanish- speaking neighborhoods. Meanwhile, Koreans have had a notable impact within - Protestantism with their evangelistic zeal and religious traditionalism...
...plays. On Saturday afternoon, a dozen actors and writers gather around a long picnic table on the Seinfeld set, scripts in hand. With director Tom Cherones interpolating stage directions, the actors perform The Barber. David fills in as one of the barbers himself, offering a florid Italian accent. There is much laughter and applause...
Queen eventually triumphs, of course, thanks to her pluck and the love of a good man (Danny Glover). All of which would be more inspiring if it weren't for the florid melodrama and tinhorn dialogue. The villainous racists do everything but twirl their mustaches. The shallow plantation wives are cliches of another sort: "If it were not for the slave girls," says one, excusing the menfolk's sexual dalliances, "we women would have to submit to our husbands whenever they feel . . . healthy." The young Queen expresses her romantic outlook in sappy lines like "I want to marry a prince...
...gorgeous, ripened voice of Lisa Stansfield, 26, embodies the romance and sexiness of soul. Her lyrics are succinct portraits of love, seduction and loss; her sound is ardent but never florid, soft but never sappy. While still barely a teen in her hometown of Rochdale, Stansfield desperately longed to join the nightclub scene of nearby Manchester, which was a bubbling kettle of soul, rock and punk sounds. "But I was underage," she says, "so I'd put tissue paper in my bra and sneak in with my older sister. Of all the music I heard, soul was the most honest...