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...dance to the Santana hit by the same name. The dancers let the rhythm flow through them, and were the focus of the concert. The piece did not use props or sets and instead used only a backdrop and lights. Through the complex lighting and the vivid costumes, the dancers filled the empty space...
...themes including Family Albums, Birds and Bees, Land and Sea, Bountiful Harvests, and God and Country, the artifacts lose their historical resonance. Lions, tigers and Greyhound carousel seats make Birds and Bees, the most enticing section of the exhibit. Farmers’ commissioned paintings of prized animals coupled with vivid imaginations prompted many renditions of oddly configured jungle beasts. Weathervanes and hunting decoys are presented as artifacts of Americana and as manifestations of the obsession with the freedom and challenges of the outdoors. The countless pots, quilts and needlepoints and furniture blend together into a fuzzy outline of American home...
...That isn't true. I made up the part about dreaming. In fact, after the twenty-fifth or twenty-sixth vivid and spouting decapitation, after so many human heads wantonly struck off by the studio's tricksters of special effects and sent spinning slow-motion like Sputniks, I almost stopped paying attention. The images ceased to make their way to that part of my brain where dreams - and presumably, compassion - are conceived...
...guillotine, so the families would be denied a vivid satisfaction; instead they would see someone in a white coat bend over an I.V. tube run into the strapped-down killer's arm, and - they would infer, because they could not see it - delicately squirt lethal fluid from a hypodermic into the tube, like a nurse giving a sedative. And they would watch McVeigh go to sleep. This is "closure...
...Small, vivid answers emerge in Erdrich's episodic narrative. The daily contacts between priest and parishioners deepen over the decades into an enduring, if unconventional, love story, thoroughly reciprocal. At last, those friends who don't know the truth about Damien see his long devotion to Little No Horse as saintly; the few who have sensed Agnes inside the impostor believe the same, with even more conviction...