Word: lushes
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...publicized DUI arrest last year, does nothing to rehabilitate his image by starring as a graying, heroin-addicted gambler who tries to rob a casino. Holding the film together are a passel of modern noir/heist elements—the prostitute, the chummy detective, the technology whiz, exotic locations and lush cinematography (in this case, by two-time Oscar winner Chris Menges, who did wonderfully evocative work on The Killing Fields). The Good Thief screens...
...project in the Bronx. He lives now with his wife and two teenage daughters in a fancy-funky town house off Gramercy Park in Manhattan, the kind of place you head for after you make a few million as a novelist and screenwriter. The author of Clockers and Freedomland - lush, knowing, best-selling books about struggle and redemption in the projects - has been up in that high-priced league for more than a decade. Which means that in the eyes of the world, he suffers from a variation of the Bruce Springsteen Problem. You can't help wanting...
...publicized DUI arrest last year, does nothing to rehabilitate his image by starring as a graying, heroin-addicted gambler who tries to rob a casino. Holding the film together are a passel of modern noir/heist elements—the prostitute, the chummy detective, the technology whiz, exotic locations and lush cinematography (in this case, by two-time Oscar winner Chris Menges, who did wonderfully evocative work on The Killing Fields). The Good Thief screens...
...Lush gardens and strategically placed lights conjure a touch of Ali Babaesque magic at night, especially with bright clumps of stars shining in the sparsely populated region's clear skies. Guest quarters?individual villas or smaller rooms in the pavilion, each with a seaside veranda?are spread along a mile of beachfront; even when the beach is crowded guests have a sense of privacy. If you're tempted to simply sink into the natural surroundings, no one will blame you. If you want to plunge into them, however, take the resort's boat to the uninhabited islands nearby for some...
...southeastern outskirts of Samawah, an ancient mud-brick city built over an elbow of the Euphrates River. At 3am on Monday, they got the order to move through the town and secure two bridges. The first thing Talraas noticed as dawn broke were the palm trees and lush green fields. "It almost reminded me of an old Vietnam movie," he says. "We came into the desert, but this was very, very green...