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Darfur Peace and Development Organization President Suliman Giddo showed the crowd vivid color photographs of scarred Sudanese babies and other victims of abuse...
...subtle in depicting his downfall, evoking the glittering excesses of colonial life--after a party "you could have strolled across the lagoon on the champagne corks"--and the tropical fecundity of Ceylon with equally irresistible power. Who could stop reading a chapter that begins, "Her father, a bony, vivid man with a taste for women and morphine, had drowned in the rip off Trincomalee on Maud's sixteenth birthday...
...dialect because she thought the language of ordinary, rural, self-educated black folk was beautiful," Valerie Boyd, author of the Hurston biography Wrapped in Rainbows told me. "She thought this language - the language of her youth, her primary language as a storyteller - was poetic and rich and full of vivid imagery and worthy of being celebrated and immortalized in literature...
...were massacred by the Hutu, and during the recent uprising in Haiti, when I viewed photographs of bodies piled up in morgues that were among the most unsettling images I've ever seen. (In that particular case, photographs of the chaos on Port-au-Prince's streets were so vivid that I chose to use them to illustrate the story...
...After all the contentiousness about current politics, a celebration of a grand old style. The closing-night party featured a vivid display of fireworks and a lavish concert of Cole Porter songs rendered by the singing stars - Kevin Kline, Ashley Judd, Natalie Cole, Alanis Morrissette and Sheryl Crow - of the new Porter biography ?De-Lovely.? Cannes 2004 went out on a swellegant, elegant high note...