Word: lushly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...succeeds, Art Matters hopes to double its endowment in five years. If not, the foundation may simply fold. That would be a blow in an era when the arts are undersupported. "It is important that people realize that art is not an exclusive practice," says Serrano, whose lush photo of a cathedral doorway appears in the foundation's 1996 calendar. "Art is not a radical thing." Maybe not, but as the catalog shows, funding the arts these days requires radical tactics...
There are other, subtler differences between Easy and his predecessor. He owns a trim little house (complete with worrisome mortgage), yearns for the settled life and narrates his adventures in a style that avoids the lush metaphors Chandler favored. He even has a sidekick, Mouse (Don Cheadle), a genial psychopath in a bowler hat, comically eager to rub out anyone who crosses his path, whether he deserves it or not. He's a scene stealer, but so is everyone else Easy encounters: the nervously sexyBeals, a brutal-funny fixer with ambiguous loyalties (Tom Sizemore), an epicene politician (Maury Chaykin...
What will Excelsior mean? It means that America's Sunbelt retirees will be able to shower, flush toilets and have lush, green lawns for decades to come...
...secret, the youthful matron eventually revealed she had been taking birth-control pills, containing estrogen and a second female hormone, progesterone. That was the very formula Wilson had developed as a means not only to treat menopausal complaints but also to forestall the aging process. Mrs. P.G. was a lush exemplar of his notion that "menopause is unnecessary. It can be prevented entirely...
...From the lush opening shots of India and the ship to America, seemingly suspended in the velvet night. "A Little Princess" is practically shot through the diamond lens of a platinum camera, on gold-rinsed film. This movie positively drips wealth. Even the wooden planks of the bare attic where Sara is thrust after her fall from grace are examined in lustrous detail by the camera's eye, and of course the opulence that surrounds her before her little bout with poverty is absolutely sumptuous. Reality is suspended as surely as if this were an animated feature...