Word: colorful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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What is modern particle physics--or, for that matter, Sheldon Glashow--all about? Glashow gives a pithy, if somewhat superficial account in the introduction to his Oct. 1, 1975 article in Scientific American, "Quarks with Color and Flavor." Glashow writes...
...SAME TIME, As It Was is not written with the same attention to color and style that Saltonstall and Weeks used in Salty. As such, it reads more like a State Department briefing paper, or perhaps one of H.R. Haldeman's "talking papers" than a memoir or autobiography. For historians of American diplomacy in the '50s and '60s, this kind of detailed reporting will be valuable, but its lack of unifying theme or humorous readability makes As It Was overall a less attractive book than Salty...
...sometimes referred to as nouns, sometimes as adjectives or adverbs, which convey a kind of idea-in-sound and add emotion or vividness to the dimension of a description. They are often onomatopoeic, but convey aspects that are not necessarily associated with sounds, especially in English--such as manner, color, taste, smell, silence, action, condition, texture, gait, posture or intensity. To students of theoretical syntax, the serial verb construction found primarily in certain West African languages is of great interest. There exist many other interesting aspects of the languages of Africa, that are most instructive and worthwhile to philologists...
...sees that he has lost all." His only recourse was to have it all again vicariously, by writing his memoirs. This twelve-volume work made Casanova a classic instead of a footnote, for even in its most suspect and self-serving pages, the 18th century throbs with life and color...
Fellini has kept the color-indeed, heightened it-but drained away the life. He seems to have fastened on the legend only to repudiate it. Seen through his hostile lens, Casanova is a chilly fop whose salon manner is alternately tongue-tied and bombastic. How such a creature manages to charm so many women into the bedroom remains a mystery. Nor, once he gets them there, is it easy to see how they can derive much fun from the groaning calisthenics he puts them through. This is a film that earns its R rating not by making sin enticing...