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...lush settings, its febrile descriptions and its search for lost connections, Democracy is a fictional echo of Didion's White Album, essays written between 1968 and 1978. Those were the years when the author spent "what seemed to many people I knew an eccentric amount of time in Honolulu," and when she published "In the Islands," a breathtaking meditation on depression and fragmentation that became an emblem of the late '60s. Those were also the years when Didion did some chilly observing of Nancy Reagan in the uncomfortable role of the perfect Governor's wife. Although...
...Pavilions, a six-hour, three-part mini-series on HBO is a sumptuous package tour of 19th century India under the British Raj. The lush, romantic travelogue leisurely wanders the flowery landscape of Victorian fiction, where swashbuckling heroes die happily for Mother England, wasp-waisted ladies in corsets palpitate at the prospect of illicit love, fawning natives in turbans plot palace intrigue, and florid, harrumphing senior officers shoulder the white man's burden. The production, based on M.M. Kaye's 1978 bestseller, represents pay cable's first real venture in "long-form" television. Filmed on location...
...three different parks in Florida The first stop was Dodgertown in Vero Beach home of Holmen Stadium where Los Angeles trains in the most lush and perfect surroundings possible. This is a real baseball community the Class A Vero Beach Dodgers play Holmen all summer and draw decent crowds despite the fact that Vero is the smallest city (town really) with its own professional baseball team...
...gift package the size of Massachusetts, this Central American country offers everything for the vacationer: sleeping volcanoes, shimmering lakes, lush countryside, Mayan ruins, a bustling, sophisticated capital, miles of unspoiled Pacific beaches and a revolution gracious enough to stay out of the prime tourist areas...
...Japanese garden parts of which had been imported Before their departure, the family had rigorously instructed me on how to care for the yard, watering every night, mowing every week, and weeding whenever I saw weeds. During the month they they were away, the grass turned from a lush green to a dried brown, the weeds grew as big as the plants, and the Japanese garden looked like the bottom of a fishtank...