Word: floridation
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...Eisenstein has also fought shy of realism. All of his characters, their faces and their gestures are superhuman rather than human. Most of the action takes place as closely within palace walls as if the cameras had been confined to a theater stage. The lighting, too, is closer to florid Russian theater than to cinema...
This is a florid-but attractive-idea...
Died. Matthew Phipps Shiel, 81, Irish-descended, West Indies-born British novelist, writer of many a florid, adventurous novel, onetime (1887) "King Philip I" of tiny, one-square-mile Redonda, one of the, Leeward Islands (until the British Government moved in, ending his three-year "reign"); in Chichester, England...
Last week the Star was in mourning. The day after its presses had rolled (after a carriers' strike), its white-haired president, Earl McCollum, had died. The man who took command last week, after briskly settling the strike, was ably affable Roy Allison Roberts, 59, the fat and florid extrovert who, as managing editor for 19 years, has been the driving force behind the strongest newspaper monopoly...
...tightening of his lips, a slight glint in his pale blue eyes. Only 5 ft. 6 and weighing only 135 Ibs., his body seems fragile. His thin shoulders are stooped. He looks more than his age: at 50, he could easily be taken for 65. His narrow face is florid and wrinkled, with the kind of puffiness that usually spells dissipation. "My dissipation," says Young, who doesn't smoke and only occasionally takes a cocktail, "is my work...