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...course, the violence wouldn't be such a factor without the vivid animation. Some reviewers have complained about the over-head angles and sweeping panoramic views used in the film. Nuts to them. The wilds of Africa are not the tame civilization to get in the beauty and the devastation in the movie without a wide-scale dramatic presentation...
Vargas Llosa intersperses his account of his public life with chapters about his childhood and youth, beginning with a vivid and traumatic memory. One day when he was 10 years old, his mother revealed to him that his father had not died before little Mario was born, as he had always been told, but was alive and was waiting in a nearby hotel to meet his son for the first time. The boy was not amused. The reasppearance of Ernesto J. Vargas, who had abandoned his wife a few months into her pregnancy, meant that Mario was yanked...
That is exactly what Don DeLillo envisions in his vivid 1988 novel, Libra, which has been adapted and staged by John Malkovich for Chicago's Steppenwolf troupe. Oswald is variously buffeted by communists who hate Kennedy, CIA renegades bent on a better Bay of Pigs invasion and Mafia overlords whose motives are as shadowy as their methods. As history, the explanations are no more satisfying than any others. As literature, the portrait of Oswald's strange world -- especially his bizarre mother -- is richer, spookier and eerily funnier than anything else on the subject...
...special moments and the extraordinary people he encounters. TIME contributor Bonnie Angelo and columnist Hugh Sidey both covered the White House during the 1,000 days of the Kennedy Administration. Those times, and now the remarkable woman who helped define them, are gone. But Angelo and Sidey recall the vivid moments they...
...controversy provides a vivid example of the crosscurrents that roil IBM. It has a motley collection of computers and software that fail to fit ( comfortably together. IBM solved a similar problem in the 1960s when it launched a family of computers called the System/360, which were all compatible with one another. "IBM has to find a way to pull its product lines together into a coherent whole," says Stewart Alsop, editor in chief of the trade journal InfoWorld. "That's the question about Gerstner: Does this guy know enough about computers to know what makes a good product?" Microsoft chairman...