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...with a background in psychology who has produced remarkably accurate suspect sketches in the Klaas case and many others. The sketch of the carjacker was so generic as to be useless, and Boylan thought she might be able to help pierce through Smith's trauma and retrieve a more vivid image of the abductor...
...senior editor Charles Alexander, who will be working with Wright: "Bob is a rare writer -- a scholar who surveys materials intended for professionals and then makes the information accessible to the general reader, adding his own perceptive interpretations. He can cover a lot of different areas in a really vivid, readable style." We look forward to hearing more from Wright as he analyzes developments in an exciting era in science...
...depiction of Radcliffe's history had better not be too vivid, however, or it might not play in the '90s. Radcliffe was the college that let women remain second-class citizens on this campus for decades. Through the 1960s, Radcliffe women weren't allowed in Lamont Library, were forced to wear skirts to class and couldn't go into dining halls--unless, of course, they were somebody's date...
Crystal-clear photography is a trademark of John Ford films, and "My Darling Clementine" is no exception. The images are so vivid and fantastically composed that one can only come away from this film with the feeling that one has spent as hour and a half in the Wild West. Considering the dearth of meaty Westerns lately, "My Darling Clementine" is the perfect film to renew of begin a love affair with this sometimes undervalued genre...
...million and up, he must be the most fashionable abstract painter alive. Born in Lexington, Virginia, in 1928, Twombly belongs to the generation of American artists that followed Abstract Expressionism and had to contend, Oedipus-like, with its influence; he is the Third Man, a shadowy figure, beside that vivid duumvirate of his friends Jasper Johns and Robert Rauschenberg. But unlike them, he made his life in Europe. After some gestation in one of the wombs of the postwar American avant-garde, Black Mountain College in North Carolina, he went to Italy in 1957 and has lived there ever since...