Word: vivid
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...just filling in while Pearson takes a rest," he said modestly. At week's end, as forecast, he was busily bestowing brass rings. The recipients: selected members of the working press. One was the San Francisco Chronicle's Charles Raudebaugh, who, said Columnist Allen, wrote a "vivid and dynamic chapter ... in Our Fair City [Editor: Robert S. Allen], best-selling study on municipal rule in the U.S. . . ." Another was Richard S. Davis, who wrote the chapter on Milwaukee. Three were Scripps-Howard Washington correspondents: Marshall McNeil, Daniel Kidney and Ruth Finney (Mrs. Robert S. Allen). "They know more...
...life and particularly of his presidency. But the film is of interest chiefly because it assembles in one place so many images of the face, so many recordings of the voice and the way of speaking-a full document of the changes that took place in externals and, by vivid inference, in the mind and spirit of the man. Some of these shots are hardly better than silly; some-notably Roosevelt's hurried, death-haunted address to Congress after his return from Yalta-are extraordinarily moving...
Boyer takes the word "union" out of the newspaper vacuum and puts it in terms of the history, structure and functions and personalities of a labor organization. In vivid concreteness he shows the union organizing, educating, providing social service, operating a hiring hall, running strikes, bargaining collectively, handling grievances and publishing a newspaper. In short, sharp sketches he shows union men and their leaders as human beings...
...have been a good many war pictures in which The Group is the hero, and the face of the nation is portrayed through characters chosen from all walks of the nation's life. The curse of this narrative cliché can be dispelled only by unusually original and vivid characterizations. Unfortunately, most of the characters in this film, although well acted, are close to cliche themselves. (One up for the British: most of the wives are plain women and most of the marriages are convincingly beautiful.) The second difficulty: it is all but impossible to communicate the crucial source...
...they have passed through the vast and lonely country that is now Nebraska and the Dakotas, Teal Eye runs away. Three days later the Indians attack and kill all the party except Boone, Jim and sardonic Dick Summers, a man swift and animal-sensitive, who ranks as the most vivid scout in literature since Natty Bumppo, in James Fenimore Cooper's Leather-Stocking Tales...