Word: tahiti
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...supple vahine named Tarita broke into spontaneous dance before Brando and Director Reed, swayed sensually to the rhythm of sharkskin drums, and extolled Brando's prowess as a godlike lover and drinker of awa, a local fermentation. Brando and Reed conferred. Soon the coconut radios of Tahiti were spreading the message that Tarita had become Hollywood's newest star...
...leaping from the pavement one morning in neatly painted signs: M-G-M GO HOME. It was the work of a resident artist who had been turned down for a job with the M-G-M crew. When a good part of the M-G-M company recently left Tahiti for a temporary breather in Los Angeles, La Tribune Tahitienne exulted: "The Polynesian gods are favoring us." Not exactly. Back in Hollywood, the Polynesian gods were planning second and third waves of invasion that should push the cost of the film past the $15 million spent...
...feature count are not likely to pull it abreast of the paper that carries 50% more columns of news each day, keeps 69 men in the newsroom (to the Advertiser's 39), has a larger correspondent network, with staffers in all the outer Hawaiian islands and stringers in Tahiti, Samoa, the Cook Islands and the U.S. Some 12,500 outer islanders also get the Star-Bulletin daily, by air; another 9,904 Hawaiians in Hilo, on Hawaii Island, take the Tribune-Herald, which is owned by the Star-Bulletin...
...last year Sutton has toted his tools more than 100,000 miles, most recently to Tahiti, where he dined on raw fish in coconut milk, papaya-banana pudding-and, of course, paregoric. His wife Pat, 24, a former night-club dancer, usually goes along, once traveled abroad six times in six months. Sutton is handsomely rewarded for his peregrinations: from his column, Of All Places, which is syndicated in 35 papers, and from his periodic travelogues for the Saturday Review, SPORTS ILLUSTRATED and other publications, he earns some $40,000 a year...
...Replied Chagall, who believes that most artists pick their basic themes early in life: "Cezanne took apples. Monet took trees. I was born where there were no trees or apples-only frozen apples-to take. So I took what there was." Emphasizing his view, he added: "Gauguin went to Tahiti, but the Gauguin who painted before Tahiti remained. Van Gogh in Holland-The Potato-Eaters-is very important. Experience, yes. Gauguin had an experience. But experience is not a passport to the company of Rembrandt." What is? "Genius...