Word: lushing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Considering the summit's theme of world poverty and hunger, the setting for the conference was a trifle incongruous. Cancún is a lush, 14-mile-long island resort near the Yucatan Peninsula, studded with gleaming hotels and condominiums. Delegation leaders were assigned identical two-room suites, complete with terrace and Jacuzzi, in the pyramid-shaped Sheraton Hotel, hard by the Caribbean. On the day before the conference began, Philippines President Ferdinand Marcos went waterskiing, while Reagan and his aides lolled away half an hour on the beach...
Director Reisz and cinematographer Freddie Francis work together to create the two very different settings. Filmed in the seaside town of Lyme Regis, Dorset, the 19th-century backgrounds are impossibly green fields, lush forests, and dark, crashing waves. The music supports the imagery, strings welling up in the background to suit this vivid and strikingly visual interpretation of every Victorian novel ever written. The blacks are black and the whites white in this world of sin and expiation where the characters care deeply about the conventions they transgress. Today's world, in contrast, appears in crisp, colorless light, everything modern...
Since its publication in 1969, John Fowles' multileveled romance has sold about 4 million copies and been translated into 18 languages. It is easy to see why. Against a backdrop of the lush Dorset landscape, two young lovers scale the Wuthering Heights of passion and despair. Charles Smithson, a kind and restless and resolutely ordinary gentleman of his day, meets Sarah Woodruff, once a genteel governess, now an outcast for her shameless "affair" with a capricious foreign sailor. That first gaze is enough. He abandons his wealthy fiancée, his friends and his good name to be with...
...signs of waning. The creatures spread beyond the populated suburbs south of San Francisco and approached the very heartland of California's $14 billion-a-year agricultural industry, the fertile 12,000-sq.-mi. San Joaquin Valley. Repercussions were quick and far-reaching. Even as helicopters doused the lush fields and orchards with pesticide, word came from Japan, California's largest overseas agricultural customer (more than $100 million in purchases last year), that it would no longer buy any fruit or vegetables-more than 200 different products ranging from avocados to walnuts-in which the Medflies lay their...
...that released clouds of Diphos, a more powerful pesticide. Next day the number of trapped flies dropped sharply. But farm officials recognized the difficulty of eliminating an insect that can produce 500 or more offspring in a month-long lifetime. In Modesto, not far from San Joaquin's lush fields, where tomato, peach and melon crops are now ripening, one had this to say about the tiny foe: "It's probably some place out there already and we just don't know...