Word: verdant
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...island of Tasmania is an Australian state more or less renowned as the home of Errol Flynn and the Tasmanian wolf. Beyond that, it serves mainland Australia 150 miles to the north as a market garden, raising crisp fruits and vegetables on its tidy farms and in its verdant apple orchards. Inland from the quaint, Georgian-styled capital of Hobart (pop. 116,000) the island is windy and rugged, forested with towering oaks and giant eucalyptus trees, which rank among the world's tallest hardwoods. Last week those forests brought Tasmania some unwanted renown: the most disastrous fire...
...ROSE TATTOO. In his most verdant drama, Tennessee Williams molded his most earthy and full-blown heroine (Maureen Stapleton), a Sicilian widow in Louisiana, whose glory fades at the death of her husband, but is eventually brought back to bloom by another man (Harry Guardino...
Only 18 years after the completion of Holbein's Kaisheim altarpiece, Hans Baldung (also called Grien for his verdant tones) painted an almost surrealistic Nativity. By then, the firm order of the Middle Ages was collapsing in Germany, Martin Luther was challenging the church, and Baldung reflected the tottering universe in strange, dislocated paintings...
...dolphin leaps. She is Terpsichore's darling and yet fortune's foil. She is a wistful waif out of a Chaplin two-reeler, a Broadway gamin skipping along the harsh pavements of defeat with perky gallantry, one of nature's eternally winning losers. Verdon is verdant, and it is lucky that all is well with her, for all is not so well with her musical...
...television screen a flamingo takes flight across a verdant rain forest. A doe peers at the sky. A jet swoops upward, catching the wind, in a visual poem to flight. Educational TV? A documentary on aeronautics? No, just a two-minute spot plugging Eastern Airlines' flight to Miami. In any year it would have been a tasteful, artful job of the soft sell, but in this, television's slackest season, the Eastern Airlines commercial looked like a masterwork...