Word: lucid
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...frightened off by the number of languages. Pavic composed his novell-as-dictionary in a single language, Serbo-Croatian, and Christina Pribicevic-Zoric has translated the novel into lucid English. The novel, however, is divided into three separate dictionaries, Greek, Arabic and Hebrew, called the Red Book, the Green Book and the Yellow Book. To help orient the reader, Knopf's bookmakers have designed small icons, in the appropriate colors, that appear in the upper outside corner of nearly every page...
Which begins to explain why so many people still go to the Olympic Games, relying on the squinting eye when the most expensive television project in history is sending out lucid and poetic montages of body and mood. For TV often catches all the beauty of an event but loses something of the feeling, like a fashion shot that captures a perfect face while leaving one unmoved. Technology can make everything seem too technical: slow motion slows emotions until they seem unreal; instant replays replay the instant again and again until it means less and less, like Warhol's soup...
...apogee of any writing career--putting together words, glorious words and making a veritable film of prose. The novel has been a long-time coming, more than 20 years of flirting with fiction, taking the truth and transforming it into social fairy tales, but always publishing under the realistically lucid umbrella of fact. The result of years with a notebook out there in the jungles of real life, this novel--Bonfire of the Vanities--purports to lend everything a purpose and win the writer a one-way ticket through the annals of literary history. Tom Wolfe has published his first...
Speakes is surely not the first White House spokesman to fake a President's words, though he may be the first one to admit it. Washington is a city with a large industry devoted to making inarticulate politicians sound lucid, to turning what is prosaic into poetry. But, as Speakes ruefully admits now, even manufactured words ought to be placed in the proper mouth before they are passed out to history...
...thinks of himself always, as he told the press last fall, as a "simple Buddhist monk." Though he is one of the most erudite scholars of one of the most cerebral of all the world's philosophies, he has a gift for reducing his doctrine to a core of lucid practicality, crystallized in the title of his 1984 book, Kindness, Clarity and Insight (Snow Lion Press). "My true religion," he has said, "is kindness...