Word: visual
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Navy crews simply pushed the landed choppers, one after another, into the sea in order to make way for the next--millions of dollars of American helicopters dumped over the side like garbage from the fantail. The spectacle became one of the last enduring images from history's most visual...
Every day for a decade, images of the faraway country came flooding into the U.S. on tape and film and photographic paper, pictures of Viet Nam by the hundred gross. Bit by visual bit, Americans accrued a vivid (if distorted) portrait of the country where their sons and husbands were dying, a terrifying multimedia montage of nervous teenage heroes behind sandbags, of Saigon's beleaguered charm, of a green, green countryside with helicopters hovering everywhere...
...CROWNING VIRTUE of Jamaica Kincaid's new collection, At The Bottom of the River is the quality of the narrative voice. Powerful and richly expressive, it resonates throughout these ten stories with an inimitable rhythm, a rhythm less audible than visual, or better yet, palpable--the rhythm of objects falling through air. There is motion, there is a explosion...
...play is performed at fever pitch by its authors, Levi Lee, Larry Larson and Rebecca Alworth, and their dual roles have made them a little undisciplined: they have tended to retain anything that gets a laugh or a gasp of astonishment. Thus the first act ends with startling visual evidence that the infant really possesses spiritual powers; the second act does nothing to explore that provocative notion. Still, the , show's energy never flags, and its lunatic characters are perversely endearing...
...said that frustration comes when an audience goes to see a band and not really to listen to the music. "It's a certain weakness in the audience that they need the visual aspect to make it entertaining," he added...