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...lose support by evading difficulties with legalese ("no controlling legal authority") or semantic gymnastics. One of the reasons so many New Hampshire voters chose Sen. John S. McCain (R-Ariz.) last week was that they like his "straight talk," that he answers questions in direct, often earthily vivid words linked in declarative sentences. Whether he means what he says and will do what he promises is a separate issue from the simple point of sounding as though he means what he says and will do what he promises. You can go a long way in a campaign if your audience...
...Once the audience has risen above about 100 or so, I don't think that the students' ability to learn is affected," Knowles told The Crimson last year. "It can become, instead, a vivid, shared experience. There is surely nothing intrinsically wrong with very popular lecturers...
...movies lately. Romeo and Juliet and Richard III became vigorous films that did honor to both the Bard and the medium. Now Julie Taymor, the magician who on Broadway turned The Lion King menagerie into masked enchanters on stilts, takes Shakespeare's goriest play, Titus Andronicus, and makes it vivid, relevant and of elevating scariness...
...TOWN This fond but completely unsentimental portrait of Northampton, Mass., captures the joys and the sheer human cussedness on daily display there. Tracy Kidder lives nearby, and he spent years listening to his neighbors and walking their streets. His book is an extraordinary feat of reporting and writing, a vivid reminder both of why so many Americans flee the small towns of their birth and why so many of them miss the sense of belonging that such places inspire...
...Other carefully thought out details of this production include the sound-effects and the slide projections. The vivid slides more than make up for the paucity of the physical set. These images remind the audience that this is not just a play about two individuals out of time and place, but that they refer to historical events that actually occurred. The penultimate scene of the Tiananmen Square Massacre becomes real for the audience as they see Karen and her friends suffering from physical and mental pain in front of the backdrop of projected photos of the real actors and victims...