Word: plumps
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...prompted her to ask if it had been a coop. But it was the reconstructed kitchen of an Italian immigrant of the 1920s that elicited her greatest admiration. Although it was supposed to show the poverty and hardship suffered by America's immigrants, Cho Lin, the warm and plump wife of Teng Hsiao-p'ing, saw it quite differently. "They certainly had high living standards," she marveled...
...their own, TV crews trudged across fields to film peasants at work, invaded a long-closed public park to get shots of young people courting, and barged into a beauty parlor to record post-Mao women getting their hair done; an ABC crew solemnly documented the progress of a plump Peking duck from barnyard to dinner plate. For the newsmen, reported TIME Hong Kong Bureau Chief Marsh Clark, who joined the tour, the trip was "like sitting down to a huge Chinese banquet. News was everywhere...
...world's finest wines. Lack of sunshine prevented proper fecundation, resulting in a crop that is little more than half the size of 1977's. Yet a remarkably dry Indian summer enabled vintners to delay the harvest two or three weeks and let the grapes grow plump and sweet. Louis Latour, head of the Burgundy Producers' Association, predicts that 1978, while a small harvest, will be remembered as a great year for Burgundies, "perhaps the best since...
Nabokov's novel indicates that Herman can't possibly turn life into art, because life is messy and disordered, and it's got to intrude on his perfect vision--a fitting reason for "despair." Nabokov conveys the idea that Herman's plump wife is having an affair with her puerile cousin without the narrator even being aware of it. And when Herman violently proclaims to have found his "perfect double," a tramp named Felix whom he encounters on a path (in a glass funhouse in a movie), we have our nagging doubts that what Herman tells us he sees really...
...visual quality of the film is lush - sets and actors perhaps too lovingly dressed in period trappings - but Huppert gives astringency to the scenes. The camera lingers on her plump, spoiled, intelligent face, and it is possible to see the wall that she has built between herself and the world. Behind the wall is Violette; what she may be is only partly guessable. Her crime is solved, but the mystery remains...