Word: floridation
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...nearly everybody, at age 37, she produced a massive, readable, academically respectable biography of Mary Queen of Scots. Now, nearly five years later, as if intent on proving that her first success was no accident, the lady has delivered a fatter and more scholarly study of Oliver Cromwell, the florid, slovenly country gentleman who became Britain's first Lord Protector...
...purposes of publicity, and for the advancement of the box office receipts, the distributors of La Grande Bouffe would like moviegoers to be scandalized by: gluttony, scatology, sexual perversion, assorted malfunctions of the gastrointestinal tract and a rather florid disposition toward suicide. This may also have been the intention of Director Ferreri. Unfortunately, however, he hasn't the wit or style or inventiveness to outrage. Ferreri is the kind of clumsy film maker whose deadeningly literal style could turn even the grossest affront into a piddling bromide...
...pictures of his own paintings. So with Nasturtiums and 'The Dance' I, 1912; the figures dancing in a ring in the background are actually one of the mural-size canvases Schuhkin commissioned from Matisse in 1909 to decorate the stairwell of his house in Moscow, the gloomy, florid Troubetzkoi Palace. Matisse's frank acceptance of art as art's subject was most prophetic...
...Susie Fisher (Mrs. Beesley), don't get bogged down in the bathos of their roles. The implicit humor in their outlooks saves the play from becoming a light-weight tragedy. The three of them also avoid most of the pitfalls of an affected English accent. Susie Fisher becomes florid at points, but she never leaves her character as Mrs. Beesley...
UNDER MILK WOOD. Dylan Thomas wrote this verse play, as he put it, "for voices." The images that Director Andrew Sinclair has added to his film adaptation do not complement Thomas' language; they detract from it. The language that comes cascading off the sound track is bottled into florid captions for an illustrated travel guide to Wales. Whenever Sinclair is not being resolutely literal-minded, he diverts himself by being fantastical. It will not do for Richard Burton merely to read the first voice. He must appear, all rumpled and dour and selfabsorbed, like some wandering Welshman cursed...