Word: lushly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Snakes & Pirates. The Portuguese, who first sighted the island in 1590, were so entranced by its vistas of purple mountains rising out of lush, green lowlands that they named it Ilka Formosa (Beautiful Isle). But the Beautiful Isle has its shortcomings. In August and September it is whipped by destructive typhoons. It averages 330 earthquakes a year. Formosa also boasts twelve varieties of poisonous snakes, including the "hundred pace snake." (The legend: the victim walks 100 paces and falls dead...
...Black Rose (20th Century-Fox] shows how Tyrone Power brought the magnetic compass, the art of papermaking and the secret of gunpowder from far-off Cathay to 13th Century England. Based on Thomas B. Costain's lush historical novel, the film bristles with research, Technicolor, 5,600 extras (not counting 500 horses and 1,000 camels), the English countryside and sun-scorched vistas of Asian deserts. On this broad canvas, however, Scripter Talbot Jennings traces a curiously skimpy design...
Marc Chagall, a wanderer at 60 as he has always been, recently moved to the south of France and resolved to take up ceramics. But he continues to paint lush, lyrical fireworks of color. Referring to the image of the floating man that continually recurs in his paintings, Chagall says: "The man, in the air used to be partially me. Now it's entirely...
...nation's top ten bestsellers with three of his records at once. All tricked out with sobbing, throbbing violins and choruses of female voices, I Wanna Be Loved, Bewitched and My Foolish Heart were proving once again that the U.S. still likes nothing better than the big, lush arrangements of its popular tunes...
Besides rowing and movie-going, the crew will have the benefit of lush surroundings, sumptuous meals, and a first class croquet course...