Word: vivid
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Unexpectedly the most workmanlike part of the magazine, the poonis are rich in restrained, suggestive imagery. Richard Wilbur's "Objects" is a related act of impressions, studded with vivid, sensuous imagery. In "Objects" and in his other two poems, Wilbur handles both rhyme and rhythm with subtlety and originality. "A Sermon," by John Ashbery, comments inclusively on a Bibical passage in terms of the frustration and spiritual blindness of modern society...
...Brujo (the Hollywood Bowl Symphony Orchestra, Leopold Stokowski conducting, with Nan Merriman, mezzo-soprano; Victor, 6 sides; the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, Fritz Reiner conducting, with Carol Brice, contralto; Columbia, 6 sides). Reiner's version of this Debussy-scented Andalusian suite, which includes the popular Fire Dance, is less vivid than Stokowski...
Yellow Jack (by Sidney Howard in collaboration with Paul de Kruif; produced by the American Repertory Theatre) is still, after 13 years, a vivid stage document. It tells the story of the search for the cause of yellow fever and, without too much sentimentality, portrays the heroism of men' who gambled their lives in the quest...
...Edouard walked among the old men and women in mourning, and saw the master's coffin covered with earth. Edouard knew that Bonnard loved color more than anything in the world, and he had bought a bunch of carnations to go with the somber wreaths. Tucked into the vivid crimson of Edouard's carnations was a white card. A mon cher Maitre, said the hesitant scrawl, avec mon regret eternel...
...soon, for better or worse, to come to Hollywood. Signora Magnani's style of beauty is not quite standard Hollywood; when she appeared in Open City, the reviewer for Variety described her as plain. Her acting style, too, is Mediterranean in its richness. But in her own vivid way-and in her knowledge of how to project her personality on the screen (this is only her second movie)-she is one of the most impressive women since Garbo. Lacking Garbo's peculiar, dreamlike power to enchant, she has in great abundance an asset Garbo never had: earthy sexuality...