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...etch in steely detail a world where pain, violence and profound isolation are as regular as Happy Hour at the local bar. Beauty and horror alike commingle in visions of lyrical grace in the mind of the tortured hero. He ends the first story, "Car Crash," with a vivid hallucination and a cry to the reader: "And you, you ridiculous people, you expect me to help...
...first big mistake was failing to settle on a place and time. The front , curtain's stylized glimpse of Manhattan evokes the '40s-ish nostalgia of Guys and Dolls, while the main set, a dark framework strewn with irregular cutout boxes of vivid color, recalls the '60s -- and, more precisely, Simon's musical hit Sweet Charity. A carousel-like jungle gym in Day-Glo tones suggests the '70s, as do the male lead's fixations on meditation and macrobiotics. The sexual precocity of the female lead's 12-year-old daughter feels contemporary. Yet the sonorous music and often sentimental...
...range. It was, in one sense, sculptural: the dense shadows of ink wash convey the shape and width of a head or a body with such emphasis that you feel you could almost lift it off the page. Drawings like Two Men Conversing or The Drinkers are so vivid in their tonal structure, and at the same time so natural and unpretentious in their expression, that you feel included in the meetings they depict. Daumier's line is always in motion, and startlingly responsive to the perceived moment. It is rarely just an outline: it surrounds the form with...
...stood with other clerks and family members beside Justice Marshall's casket, my own memories grew more vivid: his delightfully unfashionable dress (the Justice often wore white socks with black shoes); his way of letting clerks know that their advocacy for a certain course of action had degenerated from advice to nuisance ("I'm the one who was nominated by President Lyndon B. Johnson and confirmed by the Senate of the United States . . . not you); his insistence upon using the word Negro to identify an African American (though recently he had begun to use the term Afro-American); his deep...
Bush's explanation of why he played Santa Claus with the law in the twilight of his presidency is a vivid demonstration of his mistaken confidence that the American people will believe anything he tells them. (Remember "no new taxes"?) To Bush, the gentleman preppie from Andover and Yale, honesty is not nearly as important as rhetoric. He could say with a straight face, "I am doing what I believe honor, decency and fairness require...