Word: floridation
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...ascendence of the man who will realize the fate of the nation. The Revolution is the "forge" France must pass through. The shadows of dozens of pikes parade across a wall in Napoleon's room. Robespierre and Saint-Just chat about whom to execute during the Terror. A florid Danton pours forth impassioned speeches, while Marat, played by Antonin Artaud, looks as if he has walked out of David's painting complete with a towel around his head. In these types of scenes the depth of Gance's vision is most evident. It is comic, for instance, when the clerk...
...observed, one perfect limousine. The newest and most colorful form of testimonial needs neither vase nor gasoline. It is a bouquet of balloons. In virtually every major U.S. city, balloonery is, well, soaring. A cluster of two dozen rubber bubbles costs around $25, not too much more than a florid array of earthbound blossoms. At many ballooneries, the fee covers the cost of delivering the gaudy globules by a messenger dressed as a magician, a mime, a clown, Big Bird, the Mad Hatter, Groucho Marx-or even with an entire chorus line. Sometimes bubbly also accompanies the balloons...
...since the Nazi Holocaust, the play has been a source of controversy as well as cash. Jews and liberal Christians alike have charged the play with antiSemitism. The recounting of Christ's Passion, though it is drawn from the New Testament, embroiders considerably upon the biblical accounts. The florid script, rewritten from older versions in 1860 by Parish Priest Joseph Alois Daisenberger, fixed blame for the Crucifixion totally upon the Sanhedrin and the Jewish rabble, which amateur actors portrayed with much shaking of angry fists and fiendish cries for Jesus' blood. After the Second Vatican Council declared...
...many other things, poison asps, opium, the collapse into rubble of an entire Indian temple? With Natalia Makarova's direction, the American Ballet Theater has produced the full-length La Bayadére, at a cost of about $500,000. American balletgoers are not used to such a florid, densely populated drama. To appreciate it, one must be prepared for a very full, surprising experience. The evening has a slight aura of grand opera; when a procession of priests makes a stately entrance, one almost expects them to sing...
...book a conventional novel; it depends solely on suspense for its sustained pace - and that is all to the good. The sad news is that the author has emphasized her real but riskier talent: writing about a collection of people who are emotional misers, helpless prisoners of their warped, florid but powerful brains. Also, because they are well-off Londoners or criminals, they do not bother much about work...