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Furthermore, everything is couched in vivid, passionate language, by turns profound and stirring, agonizing and impenetrable. At times, it acquires a poetic, almost musical tone; indeed, by the end, the play largely abandons meaning in favor of the pure beauty of words. But even through the middle of the play, the dense language poses no small challenge. The play consists of lengthy monologues--often delivered just a little too quickly--which leave one struggling to keep up. Revelations about the banality and fakeness of existence are liberally spiced with whimsical references and odd metaphors...
...bedrooms, beaches, hair salons, reading groups and rush-hour subway trains, selling almost 700,000 hard copies in the process and 3 million more in paperback. Numbers like these would have drawn any publisher's attention, of course. The fact that an African-American author was writing about vivid characters with whom many black women could identify had the added effect of proving to booksellers that there is a sizable, previously ignored market for semisoapy black fiction--just as the $67 million gross for last year's film version of Exhale proved there is a sizable market for semisoapy black...
...last week after a two-month hiatus during which the Senate slapped an absolute deadline of June 14 on him. With only seven weeks left to find a smoking gun, D'Amato called fresh prey to the stand: former Clinton chief of staff Betsey Wright. As Libby, the most vivid supporting character in Primary Colors, Wright was portrayed as a wild-eyed, foul-mouthed, daft Dustbuster, so excitable that much of her dialogue in the book is in capital letters. In real life, she was the inadvertent author of the memorable "bimbo eruptions" line and could often get emotional when...
This show will take things much further, for specialists, no doubt, but especially for the ordinary viewer. There could be no more vivid introduction to the upper reaches of Chinese art, and this takes hold right at the beginning. No matter how many ritual vessels from the late Shang dynasty (13th to 11th centuries B.C.) you may have seen, the memory of them will pale beside the massive ting, or tripod pot, in the first room, with its swollen bronze belly and deeply incised decoration. And when, in a nearby case, you see a late neolithic pi, or jade disk...
...punchier passages were more likely to be accurate. They also felt safer confirming idiosyncratic thoughts that ran against the social or religious grain of Jesus' day, involved role reversals or, in keeping with the style of the wandering wise men of the time, employed exaggeration, humor and concrete and vivid images. They preferred parables without explicit applications...