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That was another sign that the Democrat capitalized on the ferment in this year's politics. All three candidates talked about change, Perot in the most vivid terms. Bush tried to warn voters that Clinton's new direction would be too radical and costly. Clinton clearly won that argument by a significant margin. Asked to rank the importance of nine "candidate qualities," change drew the highest response (38%). Clinton won nearly two-thirds of that group, while Bush came in third...
Rigoberta Menchu, 33, Guatemalan Indian-rights activist whose family was killed in her country's bloody civil war; from Mexico, where she fled in 1981, Menchu has fought against persecution by rightist forces of tens of thousands of Indians. She "stands out as a vivid symbol of peace and reconciliation across ethnic, cultural and social dividing lines," said the citation. (See related story on page...
...sheer number and scope of these scenes could only be the result of a lifetime of fastidiousness, coupled with an intricate memory and a vivid imagination...
...edge of a ravine near Travnik. Like some other Balkan tales, this one is impossible to verify independently. Bosnia's Muslim authorities claim to have details, but Serb leader Radovan Karadzic says he knows nothing of a massacre. In the meantime, one escapee, Semir K., 24, shivered with vivid memory as he poured out this account of the evening...
...young. Comedy always exalts the clever over the dull; romance promotes the beautiful over the plain; gangster movies and westerns resolve moral dilemmas with fistfights or gunfights. The hero is a fellow cocky toward authority. And drama has always been a charged debate between good and evil. The more vivid the evil -- whether the Nazis in Casablanca or Hannibal Lecter in The Silence of the Lambs -- the more satisfying the final triumph of good...