Word: lushing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Audiophiles have long complained about the poor quality of TV sound. Lush movie scores, rock concerts and opera performances hardly sound their best when squeezed through a 3-in. TV speaker. But all that is changing with the advent of stereo TV. An estimated 2.8 million stereo TV sets are expected to be sold in 1986, double the number last year. Meanwhile, the IN STEREO logo is ) cropping up on more and more network programs, just as the familiar IN LIVING COLOR advisory did back in the early 1960s...
...essential fantasy of the video, the lush and bounteous scenery used to recreate imagination, is thus somewhat lost. As Catherine, for example, stares out into the real live crowd, tosses back her head, sidles back and forth and purses her lips, the audience stares back at the actress against the white sceen and feels left...
...taking handouts from their former business partners, the Werles, permeate every emotional connection in the play. The Werles' first-act party takes place in shadow behind a mirrored wall, which later turns out also to have concealed the grim garret where the Ekdals live. When the action shifts there, lush red drapes bordering the stage drop to the floor, as if a veil were ripped aside to reveal reality. The staircase leading from the living floor to the aerie where the Ekdals keep caged birds, including the duck of the title, is a noisy, bone-jouncing climb. The family...
...people, after Fig Tree Park, a place many of them call home. Palms outstretched, the scruffy men and women beg from pedestrians on the main shopping artery. They urinate in alleys, rummage for food in supermarket dumpsters, snooze on store stoops. Their beer cans and assorted flotsam dot the lush green parks. They are Santa Barbara's homeless, perhaps 2,000 displaced people in a population of 75,000. The city's mostly retired, wealthy, conservative Establishment, although resigned to their presence, is determined to contain their numbers in the prosperous town just 29 miles from Ronald Reagan's Rancho...
...Robert Venturi had just published his influential rejection of less-is-more Miesian modernism ("Less is a bore," Venturi punned), and younger colleagues were starting to grumble that the inspirational rigor of the International Style had turned to rigor mortis. Death spared Mies both from seeing any of the lush species of postmodernism and from the ignominy of a public rejection in 1985, when British authorities denied a die-hard Miesian builder permission to put up a high-rise that Mies had designed for the City of London...