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...describes places she has lived and how they have affected her. The seven short sections of her essay spotlight moments from her life, ranging from a childhood Halloween to her college years. Her fractured chronology coupled with her original imagery is powerful and energetic and leaves the reader with vivid impressions of her life...
...amorous dentist and his sweetheart, Gloria, are entrancing in their vivid representation of the absurdities of love, liking and all the intermediate emotions. Chloe Leamon, however, was perhaps not an ideal choice for the part of Gloria. Leamon is entirely credible as a woman contemptuous of passion, but she fails to portray adequately Gloria's descent from feminism to femininity...
Robi L. Soni '90, Wylie's roommate for fouryears at Harvard, said that his most vivid memoryof Wylie was watching him review videotapes of hispast performances...
...Adagio from the unfinished 10th, live for Deutsche Grammophon, using three virtuoso orchestras: the New York Philharmonic, the Vienna Philharmonic and Amsterdam's Concertgebouw. Result: this definitive 13-disc boxed set. Bernstein finds the universal in Mahler's exquisite, often tortured, self-consciousness; the metaphysical beneath the moody, vivid surfaces. In struggling to understand fate, Mahler found despair, strength, ineffable loss and radiant affirmation. Yet it is ultimately in the music's unpredictable juxtapositions, its intensifications and easings, its shifts in perspective, its encompassing grasp of powerful and disparate emotions, that we find Mahler -- and ourselves...
Each interview took more than an hour of slow, sentence-by-sentence translation. The witnesses went into vivid detail about what they had seen when they arrived on the scene: the plane's wreckage and the mangled bodies of the two airmen. Agreement on these details could have been orchestrated by the Vietnamese government, but small differences between the witnesses' stories seemed more likely to stem from the various times at which they arrived on the scene. Their accounts meshed in a way that would have been hard to coordinate...