Word: lush
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...handsomely photographed Technicolor scenes of the rolling Shropshire countryside. And a strong cast helps cover up some of the story weaknesses: David Farrar swaggers masterfully as the horsy squire, and Cyril Cusack is appropriately pale and wan as the deserted parson. But it is in Jennifer Jones's lush, wide-eyed performance as the passionate girl that The Wild Heart beats most strongly on the screen...
...summer these roads buzz with traffic -for horses and horse farms, with their lush pastures, white fences, parklike woods and columned manors, are the state's chief tourist attraction...
...sees it as something of a happy medium between Fascist realism and "the form which cubism had diffused to the point of meaninglessness." He calls his style "realistic idealism," goes in for lush figures, both clothed and nude, done in thick, vivid colors...
...prize Batista recaptured is a lush green tropical treasure island, producing record amounts of sugar and an annual governmental income of some $350 million. Its exuberant Havana is one of the world's fabled fleshpots. The whole world dances to its sexy rumbas and mambos. Its socialites dine off gold plate, and its sumptuous casinos are snowed under by the pesos of sugar-rich playboys. The "dance of the millions" that Cuba knew in its brief post-World War I sugar boom is going again full blast. Batista brought off his coup at the top of Cuba...
...female operatives, Debby Reynolds and Jean Hagen, also acquit themselves with a heretofore concealed competence, and the general decor of the backgrounds is lush but not garish or offensive...