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...painted jacket swings free now and then to show a lacy purple shirt and the trademark black bra. She has a floppy purple rag tied in her hair. The costume is sexy, and light as she is, at 5 ft. 4 1/2 in. and 118 lbs., her body is lush. But her movements to Holiday are skipping and prancing steps, mischievous kid stuff...
...sight of the lush German countryside on his flight to Bergen-Belsen, Reagan said, reminded him that prisoners at the camp must have despaired of ever seeing spring again. Choking with emotion, he went on: "All these children of God, under bleak and lifeless mounds, the plainness of which does not even hint at the unspeakable acts that created them. Here they lie, never to hope, never to pray, never to live, never to heal, never to laugh, never...
...million Vietnamese were killed. In the decade since the Communists took over, another million have fled the country, sneaking through the bush to Thailand via Laos and Kampuchea, or huddling in boats headed into the treacherous South China Sea. Viet Nam is now quiet and bucolic, the battlefields lush once again. But it is also an anxious, impoverished country, more than a little grim: the terrible random death of war has been replaced by the mean certainties of a police-state peace. Life may be better for most Vietnamese, but life is not good...
...magazines, engravings and photographs. He visited the exotic pavilions at the 1889 Exposition in Paris. He could walk in the Jardin des Plantes and hear the big cats roaring and coughing a few hundred yards away in their iron cages, jungle sounds floating to him through a screen of lush foliage. He "knew" what the Nile looked like, and the Niger, and the Amazon: muddier and steamier than the Seine, and lined with a frieze of swollen aspidistras. Out of this, on occasion, he could distill incantation. The Snake Charmer, 1907, condenses a huge popular imagery of the noble savage...
Sarah may be the victim of white society's warped values, but Lee is consciously gnawing away at the mythical New Negro. At the height of the civil rights movement, Sarah is in a lush girl's prep school. Her best friend, a white girl, asks her: "Don't you think it's rather romantic to be a Negro?...My father says Negroes are the tragic figures of America. Isn't it exciting to be a tragic figure? It's a kind of destiny!" In Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man, 30 years earlier, a white philanthropist said almost the same...