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...aura of a casual café in the French countryside. At the same time, large colorful canvases, spotlighted with wiggly black wire lamps, dangle across the wall to create a funky, artistic vibe. The room is cheerful and inviting, radiating with a warm glow from the contrasting hues of vivid yellow and deep red. The high ceilings and the mirrors that fully cover one of the walls gives the small and intimate space the illusion of roominess. Huge, fishbowl-like windows create odd—if interesting—exchanged glances between the diners and passersby on Mass...
...wild popularity of the column is largely due to Krinsky’s unflinching and vivid candor. In her Oct. 26, 2001, column “Manual manipulation: a dying art,” for example, Krinsky bemoans the handjob’s disappearance from the love repertoire, a change that she claims essentially removes third base from the sexual infield—leaving couples to either jump the canyon to home plate or hunker down at second for the long haul...
...Rotters’ Club, Jonathan Coe presents a vivid and telling portrait of Birmingham, England in the 1970s. Focusing primarily on the adolescent Benjamin Trotter, whom his schoolmates jokingly call Bent Rotter—from the British slang for homosexual—the book tackles the standard issues of English high school, such as dealings with the opposite sex, parents, bullies, peers and, of course, the tribulations of wearing a uniform. But it also breaches the deeper problems of labor relations and unions, race relations, music, extra-marital affairs, the aftermath of World War II, religion, meaningless...
...this relationship grows unbearably vivid, it is not surprising that some of the educated classes in the U.S. grow more desperate to reconstruct the ideological framework needed to justify the country’s determining role in maintaining this disparity, much to the misery of Palestinians and Israelis. Overall, this ideological task is transparent. First comes the staid narration of the fall of Oslo because the Palestinians inexplicably refused the magnanimous “Barak Plan” giving the Palenstinians “90 percent of the West Bank.” Obscured are the actual terms...
...spokesperson Christine E. Lafon said the special alignment is a vivid demonstration that the solar system is formed like a disk...