Word: tahitian
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...offers brilliant confirmation of Gauguin's primary role in the liberation of color in modern art. From his first 1891-93 voyage alone, the show brings together 15 major works now scattered around the world, including Woman With a Mango from Baltimore; the audacious Hail Mary - a Tahitian Madonna in a red sarong with the child astride one shoulder - from New York; Philadelphia's stunning There is the Temple, with its daffodil hillside against a cerulean sky, and others from Copenhagen, Buffalo, Madrid, Moscow, Paris and St. Petersburg. The result is a spellbinding symphony of color that's not likely...
...Tahitian Pearl,” Ron Blake’s saxophone converses with McBride’s electric bass until the two finally meet, yielding perhaps the album’s smoothest effort. “Lejos de Usted,” with its samba-influenced rhythm, is also unique for McBride’s bowed bassline, which complements a strong flute performance from Blake. Although the track’s spoken introduction seems extraneous, the interesting play of repetitions that follows more than compensates...
...approaches to their subjects, with often breathtaking results. In the interpretation of Gauguin’s epic “Women and a White Horse” by Cynthia Antonopoulos of the Wollaston Garden Club, exotic tropical flowers fans out like a hanging garden and draws us into the Tahitian world of the painting...
...Checkpoint, a tin-roof shantytown next to the entrance to the former base, those young Catholic girls have had to grow up quickly. Melinda Basilan started working the strip stage at the Tahitian Queen when she was 16 years old. Now, she has two children. Stephanie is three, and her father is English. John Michael is two; his father is an American from Georgia. The Yank has promised to visit in May, but no one in the dirt alley is holding his breath. Checkpoint is filled with mothers waiting for fathers who never come back...