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...continuing mystery." The murders are commonly attributed to John Williams, a seaman who died by hanging while in police custody. James and Critchley make a compelling case for his innocence, finger a probable alternative villain and suggest that Williams' death in jail may also have been a murder. Vivid in atmosphere and detail, the book is in the best tradition of the historian as avenging angel...
...Malacanang Palace. A person's vision may cloud a little as he tries to peer into the shadows of Swiss bank vaults or into the double-bottomed luggage of the Marcos real estate deals. But the image of the 5,400 shoes of Imelda Marcos makes the metaphysics vivid...
...embraced the whole history of modernism in America. Between 1916, when a friend took a bundle of her drawings to Alfred Stieglitz at the 291 Gallery in New York City, and 1976, when encroaching blindness forced her to more or less give up painting, O'Keeffe remained either a vivid presence or, in her later years of isolation on her ranch in Abiquiu, N. Mex., a formidable and revered absence...
That it happened in English helped too. Posters were meant to be read by the crowds, as well as seen by foreign cameras. The Filipinos easily made their own case on American talk shows. By contrast, the fall of "Baby Doc" Duvalier in Haiti made less vivid TV. Cameras could show the undernourished Haitian country people, happy but still fearful, but much of the expression of their emotions got lost in translation. The problem was once wryly summed up in a book title by Edward Behr, who had covered the Congo: Anyone Here Been Raped and Speaks English...
...haven't mentioned the cockroaches that crawl out of a wound in Harry's chest, the sardines that drop from between the legs of his philandering wife, the elephant that sits on his car -- or the wild cinematic verve that alchemizes each comic grotesquerie into images as vivid as a bad trip. But Bliss is no mere catalog of surrealist gross-outs. It yanks astonished laughs from the viewer to ease the way along a modern pilgrim's progress, one that finds salvation in the doggedness of obsessive love. Harry tracks his recalcitrant Honey to her home; when she rebuffs...