Word: vividly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...SECOND REBELLION, by James McCague. A vivid account of how at least 1,200 people died and blocks of Manhattan were burned in the 1863 antidraft riots by Irish immigrants who refused to fight in the Civil...
...angriest of Britain's Angry Young Men, Alan Sillitoe made painfully vivid the mill-town world of chapped hands and cold-water sinks in Saturday Night and Sunday Morning. In this novel, he seems neither quite so young and angry, nor quite so British...
...SECOND REBELLION, by James McCague. A vivid account of the antidraft riots that destroyed whole sections of Manhattan during the Civil...
...that while it requires only a grainy black-and-white script, they give it a glossy, Technicolor treatment. Every irony is underlined, every climax hammered home, every scene overstuffed with authentic touches from their well-stocked notebooks. The result, paradoxically, is that their finished product is rarely as vivid and compelling as their raw material must have been...
...Passion. For centuries, village priests have used instructional dolls to teach children Bible stories, and Girard's collector's eye spotted one particularly vivid scene: a depiction of bearded Noah and Mrs. Noah presiding over an ark of candy-colored animals. Villagers labor for months to produce a panoramic Nativity scene for display during the Christmas season. Girard has assembled 200 Mexican figures which would originally have served as background in Nativity scenes, into one tableau. It portrays the busy market that thrives in any village on a fiesta day. To add a contemporary note, he even introduced...