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...indeed a land of unexpectedly lush and verdant beauty, whose emerald rice and jute fields stretching over the Ganges Delta as far as the eye can see belie the savage misfortunes that have befallen its people. The soil is so rich it sprouts vegetation at the drop of a seed, yet that has not prevented Bengal from becoming a festering wound of poverty. Nature can be as brutal as it is bountiful, lashing the land with vicious cyclones and flooding it annually with the spillover from the Ganges and the Brahmaputra rivers...
...might serve for a Tennessee Williams playlet. It might even be turned into a decent ballet, but not as Cranko has tarted it up. Poème inconsistently wobbles between crude parody-guests at the party flounce offstage in a way that was clearly meant to be amusing-and lush sentimentalism. The four lithe male dancers who play the diva's lovers are coyly dressed in skintight body stockings and continually swirl enormous Art Nouveau capes about themselves like pretend matadors at a gay beach...
...Nationalist regime on Taiwan shows every sign that it expects to hold power for some time to come. The island's economy is booming. A huge new foreign ministry is going up in the middle of Taipei, and on a lush green hill at the edge of the city the Grand Hotel is adding a twelve-story wing. Still, there is an air of nervousness if not desperation in the diplomatic counteroffensive that the Nationalists are mounting in the face of Peking's recent successes. Sixty-three countries still recognize Taipei as the legal government of China...
...there too -and she goes out of her mind with joy. But is he too jolly? Yes. Driven by something that is bigger than him and bigger than anybody. There is the smell of position and power already in Kennedy's office. The couch is thick and lush, not the black Government issue. The pictures on the walls are large and professional-of family and friends, telling in their way the Senator's past and his purpose. The other candidates seem like renters in their quarters. Kennedy seems...
...lush, exotic, sensual camerawork...