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Word: plushiest (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Picture emerges as a dazzlingly colored musical wheeze sparkled only by the sporadic appearances of Carmen Miranda, the lively, liver-lipped singer and diaphragm dancer who came to Broadway two years ago in The Streets of Paris. Only the plushiest side of life in Rio is shown-the expansive interior of a great nightclub tall, draped and mirrored rooms of the Baron's house, the modernistic interior of the Rio Stock Exchange. In these settings, Brazilian life seems polite and well-dressed, constantly accompanied by an ordinary assortment of Mack Gordon-Harry Warren tunes sung against a background...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Mar. 24, 1941 | 3/24/1941 | See Source »

...ranging back to 1891, showed the pious painter's long preoccupation with circus clowns, tortured Christs, brutal judges, violent nudes, all painted in slashes of black, and brilliant, jewel-like reds, blues, greens which recalled Rouault's early apprenticeship to a stained-glass worker. Boston's plushiest Brahmins viewed the paintings with no murmur of disapprobation, even for a wrenched, very nude Red-Haired Woman, which was one of the high points of the show. Boston's Sanity in Art Society kept mum. Thus had James Sachs Plaut put critics to rout...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Plaut's Root | 11/25/1940 | See Source »

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