Word: verdant
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...Jordan Scott (daughter of director Ridley Scott) and set in a girls’ boarding school in the English countryside, all is outwardly beautiful. And how! Lips in the film, which are usually pouting and receiving of loving close-ups, are deepest crimson; as sensuously undulate as the verdant hills in the background. The water in which the girls take their diving lessons is always sparkling, set in such a contrast to the gray stone of the school that it makes the harmony of colors sing. Everything is shot with a saturation of hue that deeply excites...
Operation Green Hunt is what the Indian government calls it: a codename for a massive operation to counter the menace of left-wing activity in certain parts of India. It is a name that combines hints of green—which evokes the verdant forests that will be the theater of action—with the malevolence of a hunt. This left-wing “extremism” is interchangeably called Naxalism and Maoism. Naxalism, for an insurrection that erupted in a village called Naxalbari in northeastern India in 1967. Maoism, for the guiding philosophies of the principal actor...
...earnest to the point of comedy. Though he produced some striking portraits, as well as a haunting landscape of Manila lying in smoky ruins after World War II, pastoral paintings are most common in Amorsolo's prodigious body of work - think of rows of smiling women harvesting rice in verdant fields, with a vibrancy unpleasantly reminiscent of the chirpy Technicolor Hollywood musicals that were playing in Manila cinema halls during his lifetime. Not surprisingly, "a lot of [modern] artists felt Amorsolo's work was too romanticized and they rejected it," says...