Word: tropicalism
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...tropic islands' American governor has "fingers that lust for gold." A U.S. newspaper reporter is "dissipated and dollar-greedy." The Nazi film captions him "a true-to-life American characterization." The rest of the cast are just miscellaneous rascals without character but "all more or less the type of the conscienceless plutocratic mammon...
...were unable to hold him down. The surgeon held with one hand and cut with the other. The soldier moaned in Chinese: "Ma ma." It was pitiful to hear the Chinese calling his mother in the same sounds we use. The doctor, his body gleaming with sweat in the tropic night heat, finished the operation, picked up the patient, carried him off in his arms, laid him on the floor in an inside room, picked up another Chinese soldier and resumed operating. The nurses rushed out to the courtyard and washed towels in a pool beneath the palm trees...
...Bahama Passage has one redeeming grace: fathoms of magnificent Technicolored shots made in the Bahamas. They have the authentic tradewind touch: the soapy green of shallow water, the blue-black of deep water, the yellow-white sails of fishing smacks, the paintless clapboard houses, the lassitude of tropic...
...Hotel des Indes in Batavia, the brown men in white coats were as quiet and wonderful and attentive as ever. They padded softly, bearing long cool drinks to the linened Dutch civilians, the officers in Dutch, U.S. and British khaki, white and blue. In the crowded, varied city itself, tropic life went on: in the shops of Chinese, impenetrable behind their prayerful squints; in murky canals thick with scum and bathing Indonesians; in streets hot and sunny between the frequent rains, pocked here & there by a Japanese bomb, but still busy with the traffic of a colonial capital...
...peak to an official diplomatic reception in President Vargas' marble Guahabara Palace. They kissed the hand of Senhora Vargas, moved through tapestried halls to a garden buffet table and outdoor cocktail bars. By the time Rio's municipal ballet had flitted on & off an outdoor stage the tropic night had begun to work its magic...