Word: vividly
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Perspective writers Craig Briskin and Jesse Furman consider Inside Edge a funeral dirge for the nation's future, "vivid proof of what many of us may have suspected for a while ... many of the best and brightest in our generation have already sold...
...images are still vivid 25 years later. The young Palestinian Sirhan Sirhan, gun blazing, moving toward Robert F. Kennedy in Los Angeles' Ambassador Hotel on June 5, 1968. The Senator lying in a pool of blood on the floor of the crowded hotel pantry. His ex-officio bodyguards, Olympic hero Rafer Johnson and former football star Roosevelt Grier, grabbing Sirhan. Shock -- and then grief for another American hero senselessly dead before his time...
Shilts refutes the assertion with some vivid reporting. He digs up a long- buried Navy study that found no correlation between sexual behavior and job performance. Winston Churchill's era of "rum, sodomy and the lash" has given way to unofficial evenings in gay on-board clubs, special newsletters, travel guides and lubricants formulated in ships' pharmacies...
...upheaval in Maine is a vivid example. When Wells complained that the national group was developing "military-industrial organizational procedures," Perot headquarters ignored him, so he attempted to incorporate the Maine chapter independently of Dallas. He also went public with his criticism. Stephen Bost, the Maine coordinator appointed by Dallas, responded by summoning Wells to appear before an "ad hoc committee on grievances." Wells states that the meeting took the form of a tribunal, accusing him of disrupting the membership drive and damaging Perot's image. "If names had been stones," Wells said, "I'd be black and blue...
...result is a book that is part thorough history, part techno-political thriller. Thanks to Read's exhaustive research and clear, vivid writing, it is evident that the disaster, or one like it, should have been predictable. Indeed, the Soviet nuclear industry had already had a long history of accidents. Because those were considered state secrets, though, most people -- including many in the industry -- had never heard of them. Read uncovers the startling fact that some critical aspects of the Chernobyl reactor's behavior that were known to its designers were never passed along to the operators. Perversely, the operators...