Word: lushing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...oddest writers, and even he had serious reservations about it. "I reread Brideshead and was appalled," he wrote Graham Greene in 1950, five years after publication. But Brideshead Revisited, overwritten and underplotted, is and probably will remain Evelyn Waugh's best-known and most popular novel, a lush, sentimental tribute to Catholicism and to the period between the wars that Waugh regarded as the last gorgeous days of the British aristocracy. Now, in this lavish and beautiful eleven-part series from Britain's Granada Television, U.S. viewers will be able to see why a book so often derided...
When the homeless Black accordion player whom Arthur briefly befriends sings "Every time it rains, it rains pennies from heaven" while dancing sopping wet outside a sleazy restaurant we get the message. The camera pans over the depressed faces of dining customers--and the lush orchestration conjures up images of black-tie dinner dances--and we get it again. By the time the set rolls back to reveal a giant montage of famous depression photos, Ross might as well have splashed a garish "ironic, get it?" across the screen...
...easier to criticize Nabokov's lectures on literature than his novels. His fiction is complex and elusive, sometimes maddeningly obscure. The prose is lush and polychromatic, the plots ingenious. He fashions the most exquisite narrative structures out of the most fragile allusions and symbolic patterns, and ices it all with an arch sense of humor. His late works, such as Ada, hint at layers of meaning that will keep scholars guessing for decades. His works will probably last: Lolita is already available in an annotated critical edition. Still, there is something missing in all of Nabokov's work. His starchy...
South Florida?that postcard corner of the Sunshine State, that lush strip of hibiscus and condominiums stretching roughly from Palm Beach south to Key West?is a region in trouble. An epidemic of violent crime, a plague of illicit drugs and a tidal wave of refugees have slammed into South Florida with the destructive power of a hurricane. Those three forces, and a number of lesser ills, threaten to turn one of the nation's most prosperous, congenial and naturally gorgeous regions into a paradise lost...
What makes the Loeb show, directed by Sam Samuels, so pleasantly substantial is Samuels's choice of a setting--the lush flesh out the plot and characters with familiar details...