Word: vividly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Starting with slope-shouldered, checker-shirted young boys "not knowing what to do with their bodies or souls," The Marines, in a series of vivid, violent images and startling closeups, follows the grim process of making men of them. Naked torsos are lined up in a sterile examination room like sheep. Barbers briskly shear them. Then come the relentless weeks of screamed orders and merciless reprimands ("Hey, stupid, you shave this morning?" "Get that crummy chin up!"), reaching a crescendo in the savagery of bayonet drill. "Downward slash!" barks the drillmaster. "You know what that means." At that point...
...refused, however, "to take the counsel of those who say nothing can be done about it." Acknowledging that people respond differently to their surroundings, Lynch pleaded that "the main parts of a city need to be expressive," so that those who live and work in it can have a vivid image of the city in their mind...
...calumniation of religion seems unnecessary. But they were particularly poor when sung by chorus line behind the scenes. Once the chorus showed up on stage (now as corps de ballet) it proved more effective. The girls writhed and groaned about the feet of Lucifer, Belzebub, and Mephistopheles, rendering a vivid picture of Hell...
While keeping his private zoo, Durrell, 35, has not neglected his writing. In fact, he shows his brother's gift for impaling the vivid butterfly of reality on the point of a pen. Only a very special zoologist could look at a white-bodied, black-footed mongoose and observe: "She was sleek, sinuous, and svelte, and reminded me of a creamy-skinned Parisienne belle-amie clad in nothing more than two pairs of black silk stockings...
Advise and Consent (adapted from Allen Drury's novel by Loring Mandel) makes good theater, not for dramatizing anything in political life that seems explosively immediate or real, but by often making vivid use of politics as people, of politics as warfare, of politics as dirt or pay dirt. In its stage adaptation, Allen Drury's bestselling tale of the senatorial fight over a President's nominee for Secretary of State abounds in sharp dilemmas over shadowy issues and in moral positions lacking defined points of view. In terms of political substance, Advise and Consent is vague...