Word: vividly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...century Persian poem The Rubaiyyat of Omar Khayaam. He condensed, combined and reshuffled the stanzas, dropping what did not suit him and pumping in generous transfusions of his own sentimental, post-Darwin fatalism. The result is one of the enduring minor poems of the language-awash with fanciful exoticism, vivid and resonant. But scholars have been scandalized by the liberties that FitzGerald took with the original, and for a century have tried in vain to supplant his version with more literal renderings...
...center to temporarily bleach away. This causes local fatigue, and makes the center of the image appear less intense-a kind of blinding. Thus the weaker light from the disk's edge and the shadows beyond are perceived more intensely than the center and appear more vivid...
...with this promise of lost authority, and suddenly the Governor becomes as steely as his armor. Delivering a flaming polemic against the King, he sunders his own flagstaff and tromps the red-crossed flag of England underfoot. It is the most powerful moment of the evening and brings to vivid life D. H. Lawrence's comment that Amer ica was born in "black revulsion." Black with wrath, Endecott orders Merry Mount burned to the ground and the Indians massacred. The historical moment is a century and a half before the American Revolution, but as the first shots are fired...
...stake in the film as message as well as art. And Bondarchuk makes the most of his forces. Cavalries plunge and break in tidal waves; columns of infantry writhe to the horizon and beyond; choruses of cannons shout like narrow mouths of hell in a series of vivid instants that recall the trancelike battle paintings of Uccello. With a knowing artist's eye, the director composes vignettes reminiscent of the harshness and heartbreak of Goya etchings. Again and again, the dolor and grandeur of Russia's convulsive struggle with Napoleon provide a panorama truly worthy of Tolstoy...
...irrepressibly daft Pierrot and Columbine figures, played by Jeffrey Blum and Lorraine James, of the play-without-the-play, the production seemed to slow down irreparably midway through. But Dean Ahmed, directing, manages to frame an unexpected climax to end the play on a note of crotchety sarcasm. The vivid costumes and masks were designed by Ellie Meglio...