Word: vivid
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Bright Corner. Outside Mexico, the Latin American art tended to be less obsessed with horror. In one remote corner was tucked the Uruguayan Figari's Creole Dance, whose mood was as joyously vivid as its virtuoso coloring...
Hiler had submitted vivid canvases of a nautilus, a purple flower and an iceberg to the Los Angeles Museum's fourth annual showing of local artists. His primitivist father, 77-year-old Meyer Hiler, had also offered work. When the Museum's sole juror, Director Roland McKinney, turned the Hilers down, Hilaire wrote...
Intense vitality and an eager reaching for vivid incidents combine in Hervey Allen's rapid, narrative style. Less admirable is his tendency to concentrate long, if lovingly, on surfaces. Like his fellow historian in American fiction, Robert Graves, Allen is weakest in his departures into romantic interludes. Unlike Graves, he has a passion for extremes; the 6 ft. 4 in. Salathiel Albine with muscles "like fluid oak wood" and the movements of "a young male panther" sets the superscale that marks the whole work for good and bad. And in his eager use of sentimental aspects of the Scottish...
...profanity became legendary. With his flair for the spectacular, he designed, had tailored and posed in a special tank uniform : green with white buttons and black stripes. His own helmet was golden with two silver stars. (The Army declined to accept it as regulation.) With his flair for vivid phraseology, he wrote some war poetry (unpublished). With a tidy, inherited fortune he indulged his love for horses, polo, sailing boats and games...
Like documentary films, which Hollywood ignored and Britain developed into a vivid educational instrument, documentary radio is old stuff to BBC. It was inaugurated in 1935 by ruddy, jovial Lawrence Gilliam, Cambridgeman and BBC features director. Since then BBC sound trucks have poked about England recording fox hunts, hop-picking festivals, markets, and building them into first-rate documentary radio shows. They also went abroad to record the sounds (sidewalk conversation, café colloquies, shopping talk, parades, music) of foreign cities...