Word: tahitian
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...Polynesian paradise of Tahiti, le grand tourist really let go. Aboard a navy cutter in Papeete Bay, De Gaulle perched his spectacles on his ample nose as outrigger canoes bearing lovely Polynesian girls passed in review. At a tamaaraa, the traditional Tahitian feast, the general sampled all the specialties: spinach with pork from earthen ovens, breadfruit, cooked bananas in coconut cream sauce. Everywhere, he plunged with a balance of glee and gravity into the smiling crowds shaking hands, and more than once was draped with leis and bussed by dusky native beauties in return...
...Marcos hit it off handsomely at the state banquet that night. After the usual exchange of medals, a four-man combo took over. And as President Marcos led Madame Ky, while Ky squired Imelda, Malacanang Palace rocked until 1 a.m. to the twist, the frug and Tahitian beats...
Gauguin did not always rely on available models. The studio of Charles Spitz, then Tahiti's only professional photographer, supplied him with inspiration for his art. His Pape Moe (The Mysterious Water), which shows a Tahitian boy drinking from a mountain spring, was painted from a Spitz photo. In la Orana Maria, one of his best-known canvases, the Tahitian figures strike poses deriving entirely from a photograph of a Javanese-temple frieze that Gauguin had brought from Paris...
Other Places, Other Builders. South of Rockefeller's Mauna Kea, California Oil Millionaire Johnno M. Jackson is opening Kona Village in September, which will consist of 130 cottages spread around a lagoon, each decorated and designed in Malayan, Fijian, Samoan or Tahitian style. Public facilities will be housed in an authentic long house built over the ruins of an old meeting house. Because a tortuous, seven-mile trail is all that connects the village with public highways and commercial airports, guests will have to be ferried in by private plane or boat...
...Anna's hands and was fighting her in a Los Angeles court for custody of the boy. Under crossexamination, Marlon readily admitted that both Anna and his second wife, Mexican Actress Movita, were pregnant when he married them, and that he also had a son by a Tahitian beauty whom he didn't marry. The judge decided that Marlon's methods were mere "shortcomings" compared to Anna's "reliance on drugs and alcohol," therefore awarded custody of the youngster to Brando. Cried Anna, dashing from the court in tears, "I bore this baby! Where the hell...