Word: lush
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...humanity intertwined with the land and the elements. It lies 100 miles north of San Francisco at the southern end of Mendocino County's Anderson Valley, a corridor 30 miles long that takes the Navarro River northwest to the Pacific. The southern half looks like Scotland: steep hills, lush fields dotted with sheep and shacks with wood smoke coming out of the chimneys. The valley is beautiful and silent. Two thousand people in maybe 150 square miles. Having few of the distractions of urban life, they see death clearly and have no urge to escape it. All they...
...Much Ado About Nothing. Hall's fairies are earthy and dirty-faced. His Titania (Judi Dench) is frankly "wicked, sexy, and erotic," and appears throughout covered only by a few leaves, a degree of nudity unusual on U.S. TV but perfectly natural in Shakespeare's lush forest setting...
...years, fur animal breeders have wanted to combine the practical qualities of mink with the lush fullness of sable. The goal has now been reached; next month a brand-new variety of sable-like mink goes on the market. Called "Kojah" for reasons best understood by the trade (although the name does have a bit more class than "mable" or "sink"), the fur is much thicker and softer than conventional mink and less bulky than sable...
Gourmetburger-embosomed with firm lush Bernaise [sic] sauce and necklaced with a Frenchly fried onion ring-garni of De Gaulle lemon slices-voil...
Fleeting Gifts. In dozens of airy canvases, Watteau portrayed the costumed promenades and the subtle indiscretions, the muted serenades and lush elegance of invisibly manicured garden estates. Collectors snapped his pictures up. Yet no matter what he showed, Watteau's view remained strangely aloof. A subtle veil of distance shrouds all his pictures, making them seem as much fantasy as reality. Unlike the nude nymphs of Boucher, Lancret and Fragonard, who with varying degrees of success were to echo his style, Watteau's aristocratic Co-lombines and shepherdesses remained fully clothed...