Word: vivid
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Parrying the Line. His most vivid chapter is on the perils of dating. It sounds like one of those strange Indian rites in which warriors are permitted to wear feathers only after they have gotten a certain number of wounds. "What distinguishes the 'date' from other conversation is a mixture of persiflage, flattery, wit and love-making which was formerly called a 'line' but which each generation dubs with a new name. The 'line' is an individual variation of a commonly accepted pattern which is considered to be representative of a facet...
...Streetcar Named Desire. Tennessee Williams' sharply vivid chronicle of a nymphomaniac's downhill flight from reality (TIME...
...known that the effect of the Mahler was immense. It is impossible to say whether this was a good or bad performance of the Symphony, as it has not been played often enough to provide a basis of comparison. But it was certainly an interesting, a spectacular, a vivid performance. The music supposedly concerns in the first movement, a man's death, in the second and third, various reflections about his life, in the fourth, a search for the primal light, and in the fifth, the day of judgment. You would never guess this, however, unless you were a program...
...lonely place called Skully's Landing. It is a journey into mysteries and wonders. From the town of Noon City he is taken in a slow wagon, by an ancient Negro named Jesus Fever, down a swampland road into night and sleep. He opens his eyes on a vivid morning scene...
...expects, in a Hitchcock movie, a few moments as shockingly vivid as a fire alarm. There are no such moments here. There are many clever little shots-in-the-arm that are unrelated to the story. Innumerable tricks of lighting and mood are moderately effective but irrelevant...