Word: lush
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week the tide of illegal Mexican "wetbacks" flowed strongest into California's lush, hot Imperial Valley, where the harvest season was at its height. But they were crossing the Rio Grande into Texas, too; by autumn, immigration men estimate, more than a million wetbacks will have surged across the 2,000-mile border between the Pacific and the Gulf, hunting jobs as the Forty-Niners hunted gold...
Somerset Maugham's Trio closes up shop Monday at the Sutton, 57th and Second, after a long, profitable run. Odette, a new British adventure story at the lush Park' Avenue Theatre at 59th Street, concerns itself with the true-to-life spy work of a female relative of Winston Churchill. Anna Neagle and Trevor Howard head the cast. The Golden Salamander is at the Little Carnegie, next to the big on West 57th, with Anouk as an extra feature. Believe it or not, Red Shoes is still playing, now wedded to intermezzo with Leslie Howard and Ingrid Bergman...
...characterization, the real-life TV show was better than the movies. When lush Virginia Hill ("I didn't keep any books or accounts or anything") left the witness stand to a patter of applause, televiewers felt they knew all they needed to know about the free-spending, fur-bearing ex-waitress. Similarly, an urbane, aging Republican politician named Charles Lipsky revealed himself as a road-company Machiavelli hopelessly fascinated by criminal and political types ("I just loved to study Joe Adonis"). And Frank Costello, refusing to have his face televised, and finally refusing to talk at all while...
Bird of Paradise (20th Century-Fox] splurges Technicolor, lush Hawaiian scenery and anthropological detail on the job of salvaging a 1912 play (and 1932 movie) about ill-starred love in Polynesia. The result is eye-filling and sometimes interesting. But quaint Hollywood customs get in the way of the South Seas folklore...
...dean of Italian painters takes a dim view of modern art, even when it is" his own. Giorgio de Chirico, 63, would like to be known for the neoclassical nudes and warriors, done in lush, candy-box style, which he paints today. Instead, he is famed for the works of his youth: surrealistic cityscapes laced with long shadows. Such pictures simply embarrass De Chirico nowadays. Last week his embarrassment was acute...