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...piano strings being plucked in sync with the audio, while another composition featured a buzzing acupuncture point detector that was pressed against various points of Schmidt’s body and enlarged for the audience with a live video feed. Captivating and thoroughly enjoyable, the duo’s vivid imagery and even more vivid music bridged performance and process, recreating the act of composition onstage and refashioning the link between sound and equipment that often gets lost amidst the technology...
...brought to light in New York State attorney general Eliot Spitzer's probe of conflicts of interest on Wall Street, are being taken seriously by those investigating Grubman. The e-mails fit squarely into a familiar pattern of greed and influence peddling, and now the picture is far more vivid...
...costumes, how rice bran is good for softening skin and the difficulty of wearing okobo, or six-inch platform sandals. In his novel, Golden immersed the reader in the geisha world. Iwasaki tells about it, and there's a difference. Absent here are the lively prose, the vivid characters and the emotions that were all elements of Golden's book. In their place is an authorial voice that manages to be incredibly detached when detailing a profession that is, at its heart, all about personal connection. The result is a surprisingly mundane account of an existence that seems anything...
...novel and Jian roll closer to June 4, it becomes clear, almost too clear, that the pent-up anguish of Yang, his student and all of seething China will break open in Beijing, "the sick heart of this country." Jin's description of the massacre is vivid, short and sorrowful, suffused with the Inferno-like imagery he evokes throughout the novel. Frenzy overtakes first the soldiers, "unstoppable like a crazed dragon," and then their victims, consumed by grief, cursing the government even as they fall. It's at Tiananmen that Jin's scrupulous realism, which can prove a drag, pays...
...sports landscape, to the point where the names stay with you if you’re anything close to being a fan of anything. Recent memories of Antoine Walker and Donovan McNabb (yes, that McNabb) on fast breaks while Kevin Garnett flies downcourt to stop the play are still vivid in the minds of Second City hoops junkies, and new legends being born with new names every week, and the whole neighborhood and then some all come out to places like Brother Rice High School on Friday nights to witness each potential birth...