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Hence the eerie popular appeal of Dr. Hannibal Lecter, a.k.a. Hannibal the Cannibal, who made his first, cameo appearance in Thomas Harris' vivid thriller Red Dragon (1981) and then assumed a more sustained role in the author's The Silence of the Lambs (1988). Anthony Hopkins' 1991 Oscar-winning portrayal of Dr. Lecter in the film adaptation of Silence gave the fictional character an iconic image: cold blue eyes in a face tightly restrained by a muzzle designed to prevent impulsive nipping of nearby humans...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Dessert, Anyone? | 6/21/1999 | See Source »

...time there gave me insight into how vivid everybody's story is," he says. "Sometimes we forget the different kinds of things that can lead people to a point in life. We judge just based on what we observe...

Author: By Richard M. Burnes, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Tobacman Moves from Eliot to Indonesia, PBHA to HIID | 6/10/1999 | See Source »

...This is likely because no two witnesses to the events of 1969 see them in the same way. But in the years since the strike and the "bust" brought activism home to Harvard, all say they have learned vivid lessons from the morning where a hundred things that could never have happened at Harvard suddenly...

Author: By M. DOUGLAS Omalley and Tova A. Serkin, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: Memory of Takeover Still Haunts Those Students, Faculty Who Saw It Happen | 6/8/1999 | See Source »

This is likely because no two witnesses to the events of 1969 see them in the same way. But in the years since the strike and the bust brought activism home to Harvard, all say they have learned vivid lessons from the morning where a hundred things that could never have happened at Harvard suddenly...

Author: By Tova A. Serkin, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: The STRIKE The BUST The MEMORY | 6/8/1999 | See Source »

...that Asia appears to be in fragile recovery, much of that criticism has turned to praise, and Summers has been receiving his share of the credit. Lim Chang Yuel, a former South Korean Deputy Prime Minister, has vivid memories of late 1997, when he and Summers often conferred until well after midnight seeking a solution to South Korea's economic woes. "I was surprised to see how energetic and hardworking he was. He was like a fireman putting out fires not only in Korea but throughout Asia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Taking The Handoff | 5/24/1999 | See Source »

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