Word: floridation
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Unlike a spaghetti western, The Sicilian has no one-on-one shootout under a hot sun. Instead, Don Croce and Guiliano are locked in an elaborate melodrama of betrayals within betrayals. Puzo too demonstrates sly moves. His florid descriptions and graphic action scenes guarantee bug-eyed attention while he plants a sardonic fatalism in the heart of his book. One of the rarest commodities in his Sicily is truth ("A source of power, a lever of control, why should anyone give it away?"), while revenge is one of the highest virtues ("On this Catholic island, statues of a weeping Jesus...
Tennessee Williams imitates a monologue in one of his own plays as he spins out florid, ribald fantasias on his family life. His mother, Miss Edwina, screamed whenever she had sex with his father and believed that the rattle of garbage cans in St. Louis was a signal for a black uprising. At 94 she changed her name to Edwin and imagined that a horse had moved into her room: "She'd always wanted a horse as a child. And now that she finally had one, she didn't like...
...SECOND EPISODE. of Leave It to Beaver was something of a history maker. Answering an advertisement in the back of a "Robot Men of Mars" comic book. Beaver and Weekly mail off $2.50 for a "Genuine Florid Alligator "But when the critter arrives, the two realize they have no where to keep it and are forced to slash it in the toilet tank...
...says, "life, death, god, incest, repentance, crime do not exist. I obey my own law." Finally, Cenci's angry wife and angrier daughter have him killed. All the preceeding facts are the parts of the play that are conclusively true. Everything else that the audience sees--embarrassingly florid and melodramatic orations, weird communions with the gods of darkness, shrieks, screams and flashing lights--is so far out of the ordinary as to fire debate as to t he meaning of the piece--that is, if the piece has any meaning...
...tour of 19th century India under the British Raj. The lush, romantic travelogue leisurely wanders the flowery landscape of Victorian fiction, where swashbuckling heroes die happily for Mother England, wasp-waisted ladies in corsets palpitate at the prospect of illicit love, fawning natives in turbans plot palace intrigue, and florid, harrumphing senior officers shoulder the white man's burden. The production, based on M.M. Kaye's 1978 bestseller, represents pay cable's first real venture in "long-form" television. Filmed on location in India at a cost of more than $12 million, The Far Pavilions deserves...