Topical Guide 699

Mark Dorset

Islands, Tropical: Their Allure
Popular Culture: Its Power to Amplify Fads, Trends, and Passions
Foreshadowing

What a Piece of Work I Am, Chapter 25:

     She began to imagine it, almost against her will. It took shape, almost on its own, out of a jumble of images from movies and magazines, bits and pieces of impressions that she hadn’t noticed before: palm trees, moonlight on a tranquil ocean, waves breaking on a reef offshore, the aroma of tropical flowers, lilting music, a lagoon, an outrigger canoe. It was attractive. It was tempting.

The original caption: HIGH-LIVING TOURISTS, 99% of them American, take it easy beside pool at Haiti’s Hotel Ibo Lélé, which looks out over capital city of Port-au-Prince 1,575 feet below. Hotel was built around view, has glass-walled nightclub under terrace. Rooms average $22 a day per person with meals, are booked until April.

The original caption: CALYPSO IN LOS ANGELES sells out the palm-tree trimmed Coconut Grove as Harry Belafonte sings ballad, Island in the Sun, for his opening night audience.

See also:
Popular Culture: Movies: College Comedies TG 688; Pulp Fiction: Stock Characters: Bad Girls TG 688

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