Word: lushes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Passion is ably staged but so austere that it provides little visual pleasure. The score similarly resists anyone's yearning to walk out humming, exceeding even the anti-showstopper standards of recent Sondheim: the melodies are elusive, and the program omits song titles. The only lush moment is the opening, a nude bedroom encounter between Shea and luxuriantly fleshy Marin Mazzie. It too soon goes sour. They sing liltingly of abundant happiness. Then she returns to her husband, her child and her hypocrisy, while he goes off to his new posting and his doom...
...resist an unauthorized peek at the inner life of a legend? Le Premier Homme has a confessional feeling, unmediated by any of the distancing ironies and disguises Camus employed in works published during his lifetime. It cannot be known whether he was reaching for the looser and more lush writing style of this narrative or whether he did not live to pare away what he might have considered its excesses. But his hero, Jacques Cormery (the surname of Camus's paternal grandmother), is indistinguishable from his creator...
...There are no devils left in Hell," the missionary said. "They are all in Rwanda." Actually they brought Hell with them; you have only to watch the rivers for proof. Normally in this season, when the rains come to these lush valleys, the rivers swell with a rich red soil. They are more swollen than ever this year...
Landscaping creates problems not immediately obvious to the casual observer. What prices do we pay for the lush green lawns of Harvard? What are those little warning flags scattered around campus hiding? A conversation I had with Facilities Maintenance a few years ago informed me that Harvard conducts only "spot treatments" of herbicides and pesticides. We need to ask ourselves if an occasional weed is that much of a threat. The "green stuff" sprayed each year contains an apparently benign mix of seed, fertilizer, fiber and food coloring (the reason it's green). Is the coloring really necessary...
...true gems. Incidentally, Piazzolla said of Tango: Zero Hour that "[t]his is absolutely the greatest record I've made in my entire life. We gave our souls to this record." It's hard to argue: Tango: Zero Hour combines excitement and full-bodied intensity with a series of lush, mournful tunes that are as painfully beautiful as anything on vinyl...