Word: vivid
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...course-as it is the job of every editor of TIME-to cull the significant developments in his field each week and communicate them to you in vivid, understandable English. That is probably harder to do in Science than in any other department of TIME...
Almost at once the great strike seemed like a remembered dream, vivid, difficult to believe, but hard to forget...
Against the background of the vivid, swirling gaiety of Moliere's and d'Artagnan's France, Cyrano is the manipulated story of a rapier-wielding, poetry-spouting wit who lets his nose get in the way of his love affairs. An iconoclast, embattled against a pedantic society, he sweeps all before him except the final prize, the ivory-fair Roxane. His winning love speeches he puts into the mouth of a handsome dolt, for her sake. The motif is noble, yet it shrinks to the simple moral that it takes more than a sharp tongue, a sharper sword...
...makes no sense, that life as it has to be lived by human beings adds up to almost exactly nothing. In an essay called The Myth of Sisyphus, he once asserted that the only important philosophical problem confronting humanity is that of suicide. The Stranger, despite its simple and vivid writing, is about as negative and futile...
...Kind of Man, like so many Warner films, is less esthetically vivid, more earnestly aware of history and document. A return to the year before repeal, it tells the story of an egomaniac gambler (Zachary Scott), his girl (Janis Paige), and a columnist (Dane Clark) who refused to take no, or a beating, for an answer...