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McGahern has created a vivid portrait of a peaceful corner of a demanding world. An uncomfortable conversation between Ruttledge and the leader of the local IRA chapter reveals the conflict between devoting oneself to the community and confronting the outside world. “Ruttledge knew that as he was neither a follower nor a leader he must look useless or worse than useless to this man of commitment and action. As far as Jimmy Joe was concerned he might as well be listening to the birds like an eejit on the far side of the lake...
...Mountain of the Women: Memories of an Irish Troubadour is Clancy’s account of the youthful meanderings that eventually brought him to the threshold of a famed musical career. The book is a collection of the vivid memories of an aging man attempting to recapture the glory of his youth, and there is no lack of compelling stories, both humorous and sad. In the first half of the memoir, Clancy grows up in the shadow of the Slievenamon (“Mountain of the Women” in English), so named for the nipple-like cairn...
...look back over my old columns, the faces, voices and stories all rush back to me with such vivid color and detail as if it were last week, or maybe even two weeks before that. I realize that to not share this wealth of experience with the world would be a crime. I have no choice. The time to pen my memoirs has come...
...their shows and say they have final cut, though they will screen episodes for the military to ensure they don't give away secrets. But Washington can pull the plug anytime. And however well done the series are, they could become, for lack of comparable journalistic access, the most vivid, complete and lasting images of the conflict for many Americans while, say, misdirected military strikes vanish into...
...heart of (and was the inspiration for) the original show. Darn it, he?d do his own darn ballet. Similarly, he honored and caricatured the great gallery of Impressionist paintings in the ballet for "An American in Paris" - this time starting from scratch, and inhabiting the vivid worlds of Toulouse-Lautrec, Manet, Dufy and Utrillo. The last words in the film are spoken almost 20 minutes before it ends; from then on it?s all ballet and mime on the grand movie canvas, popular art swaggering toward an embrace with high...