Word: fruits
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...miles wide. St. Thomas offers the bustle of Charlotte Amalie, the islands' capital city, as well as ancient forts and quaint Danish architecture. St. Croix, quieter and less populated, boasts a rain forest and an arid, cactus-studded bluff, wildlife (deer, quail), a profusion of tropical fruit from papaya to pineapples, a golf course, and old plantations with such calypso names as "Slob," "Humbug" and "Jealousy." St. John remains mostly unsettled, its rugged terrain a protected national park; but for the wealthy it has the Rockefellers' exclusive resort at Cancel Bay, where two recent visitors were Lady Bird...
...corner newsstand is doing a nice business with its tropical fruit lifesavers. Banana lifesavers, mango lifesavers, coconut, pineapple, tangerine and orange. An ecstasy of esters. Looking into the newsstand through the large window heaped with apples and oranges, the old man with the dirty magazine is the center of a depraved still life...
...cinema a more human sort of actor has found his place. For two long generations, American moviegoers had been staring at actors attached to profiles that looked as if Phidias had chiseled them out of vanilla ice cream and at actresses shaped like animated advertisements for the California Fruit Growers Association. In those days, movies were "vehicles" for stars whose on-screen images were doctored by diffusing lenses and light screens and with makeup that was laid on by fellows who should have belonged to the plasterers' union. Now, says Director Reisz, audiences "no longer want to look...
...worse shape than our own," he began. "I thought while I'm here, I might get a CIA subsidy." He shifted smoothly into an interpretation of the recent G.O.P. victory. "The people voted 'against' last Nov. 8," he said. "They voted against sharing the fruit of our toil with those who can, but don't work; against the stultifying hand of Government in everything; against the soup-kitchen philosophy of the '30s." He sat down to the biggest applause of the night...
Bruce Pennington, Walter Sullivan, and Michael Schmidt record events which would not normally arouse much interest, like walking, swimming, and watching fruit-pickers. But it can be fascinating to look into a fishbowl through the eyes of Schmidt...