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...where religious allegiance must be downplayed to avoid the attention of the Protestant authorities, who are especially vigilant in the years following World War II in which the book is set. Old grudges are fresh in this society, and memories of the not-so-distant rebellions are almost more vivid than the events of daily life...
...Pacific Northwest coast around which his tales are spun, Byers' short stories inventively explore the domains of psychology and interpersonal relationships through the minds of his chief actors. The briny odor of Seattle air clings damply to the pages of the book, with Byers' distinct imagery painting vivid arenas for his divorced women, widowed men and pubescent and imaginative children to perform...
What the people of Hong Kong are sure about, though, is that they will not soon forget what happened that night in 1989. Images of what the Chinese government ordered upon its own people were still vivid in their minds as they made it through the change of sovereignty eight years later. The official tokens given out at the June 4 vigil offer a solution to worries that rallies of this sort might not be allowed in the future...
What created the movies' vivid, fluent brand of illusionism--besides the talents of great filmmakers, of course--was the development of more mobile cameras, more expressive lighting, more sophisticated editing and, above all, more ingenious special effects that could bring to life prehistoric worlds of dinosaurs and future worlds of space travel. And let's not forget animated films, perhaps the purest cinema of all, in which technology allows the creation of an entire visual world unimpeded by such tiresome exigencies of the real world as sets, props and actors...
SILENT SPRING (1962) Trained as a marine biologist, Rachel Carson wrote gracefully about the natural world and its enemies. High on that list, her most famous book proclaimed, was the growing agricultural use of poisonous fertilizers. Her vivid descriptions of the ensuing damage to the environment--including animals, birds and humans--made ecologists of her many readers...