Word: lushes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...first glance, a painting like Cake Window (Seven Cakes), 1970-76, might seem to reflect the familiar Warholian message of pop: uniformity within glut. But no. Its target is specificity, the peculiar qualities of fluorescent light (no less difficult to convey than those of sunlight or moonlight), the lush mortuary blue of the shadows, the buzzing glitter of the whites. Light is trapped in the dense paint, and Thiebaud extracts a lavish, slightly mocking sensuality from the pun between the depicted work of the cake icer--smearing those layers of sweet goo, drawing arabesques with the forcing...
...Bring You the Soul of America, I undertook a journalistic odyssey to determine the causes behind this obsession with all things green an lush (or smelly and insect-ridden for you urban purists...
...train from Moscow pulled into Sochi and disgorged passengers exhausted from the 850-mile, 30-hour journey. Waiting for them on the platform were about 100 residents of the lush Black Sea resort, some of them sweetly smiling, grandmotherly women who wanted nothing more than to share the genteel charm of their homes. "I have a nice little room to rent, a short walk to the sea, hot water, next door to a good restaurant," declared one. Two bone-weary women quickly began bidding furiously against each other for the room, even though neither had seen it, driving the price...
Besides his church base and political legion, Falwell during the past 14 years has created a Fundamentalist college, Liberty University, that teaches 6,500 students on a lush, wooded 4,400-acre campus in Lynchburg. Each year Liberty sends out some 300 graduates to churches around the country, a growing network of supporters ready to serve Falwell's Fundamentalist causes. Thus far, 700 of them are pastors of their own churches...
...ingredients were in place for a stew of a scandal. At stake were nothing less than the fate of the Italian tomato crop, one of the country's leading exports, and the pride of Campania, a lush farming region that stretches from Naples to the slopes of Vesuvius. At the height of the harvest two weeks ago, deliveries of tomatoes to canneries were abruptly suspended by the Italian Ministry of Agriculture. Reason: suspicions that much of a 200,000-metric-ton crop, perhaps 30% of a bumper harvest, contained the poisonous insecticide aldicarb. Marketed by Union Carbide under the trade...