Word: lushes
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...goes according to plan, Flight 158 will take off this week from Kourou in French Guiana, soaring up and away over the tiny South American country's lush equatorial forests and sandy Atlantic beaches. Flight 158 is no ordinary tourist shuttle, though. It's an Ariane-5G rocket that will launch the Rosetta spacecraft on an ambitious journey halfway across the solar system to intercept and land on Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, which is currently streaking across space at more than 100,000 km/h inside the orbit of Jupiter. "What's totally obsessing me is that we're launching into a comet...
...Museum of Modern Art is lavishing attention on the art of fashion photography with "Fashioning Fiction in Photography Since 1990," an exhibition of the work of Juergen Teller, Nan Goldin, Tina Barney and Philip-Lorca diCorcia. For those who can't make it to New York City, a lush book (Distributed Art Publishers) will accompany the exhibition. April 16--June...
...shojo title, Fushigi Yugi: The Mysterious Play, by Yu Watase, typifies the genre. It tells of Miaka Yuki, a lazy student with exam nightmares. A strange library book allows her to visit ancient China, where she meets a handsome but avaricious young warrior. Like most shojo, the tale features lush costumes and impossibly beautiful boys. What may surprise new readers are the author's interjections and frequent shifts into goofball humor--both classic manga tropes...
Like other bands riding the current retro trend, the Stills’ music screamed elements of punk, ska and 80’s new wave. While their influences were at times too obvious, the Stills struck a lush, winsome blend of punk and pop on “Of Montreal” and “Gender Bombs...
...Watase, typifies the style. Deftly combining action with melodrama, it tells of Miaka Yuki, a lazy student with exam nightmares. A strange library book allows her to visit ancient China where she meets a handsome but avaricious young warrior. Like most shojo the style of Fushigi Yugi includes lush costumes, impossibly beautiful boys and, yes, those big, saucer eyes and tiny, button noses. What new readers may be surprised at are the frequent shifts into goofball humor and the author asides -- both of which are manga tropes...