Word: lush
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Movie number two is Clements Portrait of Eden. His cameras follow Phillipe's sloop Marge along the lush Italian coast from Rome to Sicily. From the Mediterranean setting he creates not so much a background as a circumscribed universe which encloses the action in a glass bell of almost suffocating beauty...
Died. Roscoe Ates, 67, slight, Mississippi-born Hollywood comedian who cured himself of stammering as a youth, made a lifelong hobby of helping other stammerers, but won his film fame and a lush living as a stuttering stooge; of lung cancer; in Encino, Calif...
...your attention. Stephen Sandy has written two new poems. The first, The Castor Bean Garden, is easily the most worthwhile item in this Mosaic, and also the most competent, well-pruned poem I have read in a Harvard publication. Sandy's intricate patterns of internal rhyme and his lush, but controlled alliteration give his poem just the the right form to complement his subject matter, which is the opposition of careful symmetry and undisciplined luxuriance. His second piece, Shoppers' World, struck me as slightly out of focus, but it still shows enough skill to outdistance the work submitted by three...
...ship, wrote Jarrell, lay 15 miles off Fire Island, awash in millionaire yachtsmen, bubbly flappers, lush chorines, and "revels de luxe." His reporting was meticulous: the cutlery and napery, he wrote, bore the name of "the Friedrich der Grosse, a former North German Lloyd liner." One redhead stood on the dance floor shouting: "This is an epic lark...
...happy-go-lucky Polynesians on the lush tropical islands of Western Samoa give their children imaginative names-Falesiva (Dance Hall), Vaalele (Flying Boat), Okisenep (Oxygen). Last week many proud new parents celebrated the greatest event in Western Samoa's history by christening their infants Tutoatas-Independence...