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...second wife Mary, offers the best look yet at a man who described himself as "someone whose principal work-and-amusement is writing, and reading and thinking about things." He had a love affair with learning, and he gave his correspondents glimpses of this passion that were enhanced by vivid imagination and caustic...
...moments of great poignancy?the mother's efforts to persuade the prettiest girl in town to have dinner with her retarded son, the lengths to which the sister goes to defend her brothers from bullies?temper the hardness the Gao children sometimes display. Gu packs his film with vivid period details: boys play hacky-sack with a flaming chestnut, a couple preserves eggs in handfuls of sticky mud, a family's supply of coal dissolves under a sudden rain. The camerawork is flawless; the takes long and sinuous...
About three days before this incident, my boyfriend of two years and I had broken up, and I’d been experiencing horrifyingly vivid visions of my single future. There I would be, living in one shabby room of an old blind lady’s apartment in Queens. For company, I’d have six cats, which I’d name things like “Mr. Right” and “Main Man.” Upon returning home from work each day, I would make tuna for supper and share it with...
...sociology at Hobart and William Smith Colleges, argues that excessive drinking is considered a long-standing cultural tradition with no real reason. “On any night in any campus the majority of people are sober,” he says. “Intoxicated behavior is very vivid. Everyone remembers and talks about it the next...
...resolved personally, often by a bullet to the groin. Men are the walking wounded, with scarred faces and psyches. Women are trophies, to fight for, possess or smash. Noir doesn't get gnarlier than in the corpse operas of Frank Miller's graphic novels or Robert Rodriguez's ultra-vivid movie of three of them...