Word: lushly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...telling the story, which hangs on the problems of a group Americans know little about. In India, there are many names for them-Anglo-Indians, Eurasians, half-castes, chee-chees, blacky-whites, eight-annas.* Victoria Jones, an eight-anna girl, is "the color of dark ivory." She is a lush beauty with come-hither eyes and a figure that would make an hourglass seem angular. But in 1946. with the British on their way out of India, Victoria's problem is acute. ("We couldn't become English, because we were half Indian. We couldn't become Indian...
Stewart McIver is fortyish and lean, with grey, close-cropped hair, "a lincolnesque man." and he has a throbbing devotion to his job. In jostling harness with a handsome lush named Devereaux, who is the official director of the sanitarium, McIver runs Castle House on a progressive principle, i.e., that patients must have responsibility if they are to show any. He finds it harder to apply this principle in his private life. At 39, his wife Karen is as fresh, and as false, as counterfeit money. A blonde china-doll type, she nurses a badly nicked ego because McIver...
...faithful will not be disappointed. The Glenn Miller Story is what the boys in the band business call a "sax lead" (a straight, sentimental pitch), but it is also a creamily competent film biography in which even the Technicolor is as lush and mild as a Glenn Miller arrangement...
...parallel trend: collections of broody "theme" music, some of it specially composed. Capitol Records has several brisk-selling numbers in this department, one of them entitled The Passions, with subthemes entitled Despair, Ecstasy, Hate, Lust, Terror, Jealousy and Joy. On the jacket: the picture of a lush young woman lost in a mixture of subthemes...
...songwriters waste little time exploring the sentimental possibilities of Dad.* Last month, nonetheless, Victor picked up a sugary little number called Oh! My Papa, which had been written for a Swiss musical comedy, and gave it to Crooner Eddie Fisher. For good measure it threw in a lush accompaniment, including a gaudy trumpet obbligato. Sample lyric...