Word: lucidly
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...singer broke his contract by canceling two shows. Jackson explained that his bandaged foot was the result of a spider bite--but not one inflicted by one of his pet tarantulas. Possibly still woozy from the experience, he made faces and hand gestures on the stand, though he was lucid enough to allege that it was the promoter, Marcel Avram, who called off the concerts. The following day, Jackson failed to show up for cross-examination. His lawyers explained that he had a medical problem...
...Hero?Zhang's attempt to explode in the worldwide movie market as Ang Lee did with Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon?is a lucid and cunning drama: ancient history (3rd century B.C.) refracted through a modern skeptic's sensibility. It views the birth of a nation through the murky motives of some of the first Emperor's potential assassins. For they are as duplicitous in their emotional lives as in their fatal politics...
...falling out last year with Oprah Winfrey, it was hard to tell that Jonathan Franzen is one of the most nuanced minds at work in the dwindling republic of letters. It's easy to tell that from How to Be Alone (Farrar, Straus & Giroux; 278 pages), a collection of lucid, saturnine essays that have appeared in various magazines since 1994. Franzen is not the first serious writer to mourn the slow death of serious reading or to be worried about the decay of the moral imagination, each a continuing subtheme in a book that lights upon everything from the Chicago...
...throughout the novel. Frenzy overtakes first the soldiers, "unstoppable like a crazed dragon," and then their victims, consumed by grief, cursing the government even as they fall. It's at Tiananmen that Jin's scrupulous realism, which can prove a drag, pays off with bitter authenticity. His clean and lucid sentences contrast effectively with the insanity of soldiers executing unarmed students in the streets. Jian, an accidental protester, is left as devastated as the rest; he can only repeat numbly to himself, "They killed lots of people, lots...
...Pervez Musharraf survives the inevitable anger in the streets that a U.S. war with Iraq would unleash, Pakistan's bitter dispute with India over Kashmir will remain, posing a constant threat of war between two nations with nuclear arms. Weaver, a foreign correspondent for the New Yorker, is a lucid and compelling guide through the nasty predicament that is Pakistan. Just don't expect her to be a comforting one. --By Richard Lacayo