Word: lushly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...firecrackers popped among the red-brick buildings from dawn until dusk. Pedicab coolies in conical straw hats and straw raincoats lounged by their carriages, inspecting their bare toes as they waited to take Formosan families on New Year's calls. A soft fog ringed the lush, green hills, throwing a grey blanket over the palms, the camphor trees and the sweet-potato patches...
Boucher's patroness was Louis XV's mistress Madame de Pompadour, and the artist worked furiously to keep up with her demands and those of the court-decorations for chateaux, scenery for opera and theater, lush paintings of nudes, and tapestry designs for the revived Gobelin and 54 Beauvais works. But his talent for rendering sensuous and elegant women in symbolic attitudes is best seen in his drawings, where quick pencil strokes catch the freshness and spontaneity of his inspiration...
Schoenberg: Gurre Lieder (chorus, orchestra and soloists conducted by Rene Leibowitz; Haydn Society, 3 LPs). Lush, early work-written before his atonal period-by the late Austrian composer in a performance that is not likely to be surpassed for precision and clarity...
...nagging ills, and acted as if he expected to launch them forthwith. Living up to his reputation as Italian Communism's chief scourge, which he had earned as De Gas-peri's Minister of the Interior, Scelba began auspiciously by ejecting Communist organizations from the lush premises they had seized from former Fascist owners and by evacuating government-employee unions (mostly Communist-run) from government-owned buildings...
...finance, but financial business needs men with more assets than these. As other doubtless will write in this edition, there are excellent opportunities for men coming into finance jobs today. But the excellent opportunities are for good man, well trained, who can product results ino a competitive, not a lush, environment...