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...standard Christ-in-Torment . A common addition is the Apostle Quartet, usually in their symbolic representations: Luke as an ox, Matthew the angel, John the eagle, and Mark the lion. Two sets of plaques from processional crosses are beautifully enameled with these figures, the greens and blues breathtakingly vivid through so many centuries. Sometimes Adam rises from his tomb on the bottom spar, and in one mid 1400s Italian work it's Mary Magdalen at his feet. Another striking theme is to show the crucified Christ on one side of the cross, and Christ-in-Glory (complete with halo...
...Danger, reporter Victoria Bruce documents what she says are warning signals Williams missed, safety precautions he failed to take and grandstanding opportunities he seized. Williams tells his own story--and defends himself against his critics--in Surviving Galeras, co-authored by Fen Montaigne. Taken together, the books provide a vivid account of how the people who study volcanoes do their dangerous work...
...college sophomores to name their most vivid public memory, and they invariably mention the explosion of the Challenger. Even that, they say ruefully, was something they saw on television, and therefore not quite real. They feel a certain bitterness and confusion about that unreality, about the disconnections of prosperity - the eventlessness...
What gleams on the surface in Furst's books is his vivid, precise evocation of mood, time, place, a letter-perfect re-creation of the quotidian details of World War II Europe that wraps around us like the rich fug of a wartime railway station. He puts us on the exact street where the Daisy Bar sat in Montmartre, gives us the heavy smell of an eau de toilette called Zouave. His stories rumble along in the dreary trains that seemed to be forever crisscrossing Europe...
...first novel, Kaaterskill Falls, as well as for her two previously published collections of short stories, Total Immersion and The Family Markowitz. Goodman is clearly a talented writer. Her style allows her to move easily from colloquial dialogue to poetic descriptions. The characters in Paradise Park are wonderfully vivid, especially the exasperating but always lovable Sharon. The character of Sharon Spiegelman, in fact, originates in Goodman's short story "Onion Skin," which appeared in Total Immersion. Perhaps the character is in fact better suited for a short story than for a full-length novel. She is memorable and charismatic...