Word: lush
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Estate and farm owners around Cornwall are planning legal action against the projected dikes, "so flimsy they could burst and flood the lush slopes and valleys with a billion gallons of sewage-polluted saline water pumped from the Hudson...
...response from the crowd was the première of a handsomely preened and plumed production of Stravinsky's Fire Bird, grounded in the Fokine tradition but soaring to new heights on the wings of Prima Ballerina Marcia Haydée's fluttering, levitating flight through a lush forest primeval...
This gag sequence, credited as A Lush Budget Production, offers four minutes' worth of opulent sets and a whole spring collection of Edith Head's most improbable costumes. But What a Way itself is so extravagantly overdrawn that the audience well may wonder where parody leaves off and plot begins. To furbish a frail spoof with all that Hollywood upholstery seems a bit like crossing a mountain stream aboard the Queen Mary-and why bother? Shirley MacLaine is a girl who can go for miles just paddling her own canoe...
These directors have actors of their own caliber to work with. Almost every voice meets the stiff test of Aeschylus' verse as translated by Richmond Lattimore. And not content with giving us the lush lines, they have given us memorable characters. No one who was in Sanders Theatre last night will ever forget Joan Tolentino's Clytemnestra. "A woman merely," she describes herself, yet she dominates the stage. She outfaces Agamemnon; she towers over Aegisthus (and the directors emphasize this by placing her a level above him on the stage as she snaps down the Argive elders...
...Tempt the Devil. Over a midnight snack, lush Marina Vlady mulls over legal problems with her lawyer-lover, Pierre Brasseur. She has recently disposed of her wealthy husband, neatly pinned the murder on his nurse-mistress. But things aren't working out according to plan. "I wish I hadn't bothered with the serum," she pouts. Then, "Oh well . . . next time." As a girl whose Mona Lisa face masks the soul of a Borgia, Actress Vlady almost turns Devil into an elegant spoof of French justice. Brasseur, too, seems drolly aware that Justice is a lady...