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...girl are feeling, but mostly the troubled family's misery is airless. The legal and psychological entanglement seems oddly phantasmagorical, lacking independent reality. As an expression of parental dread, of being trapped and unable to help one's children in a situation of vaguely defined horror, the fears are vivid enough. But they are a product of the 3 a.m. sweats, and in Before and After, the author never really breaks them free into the waking world...
...forced choice between romantic love for Vronsky and maternal love for her child by her husband Karenin. But Kellogg nearly wrecks the enterprise with lyrics so blandly generic that they convey hardly any specifics of character -- especially frustrating when the source, Tolstoy's novel, provides some of the most vivid characters in world literature...
Africa has a genius for extremes, for the beginning and the end. It seems simultaneously connected to some memory of Eden and to some foretaste of apocalypse. Nowhere is day more vivid or night darker. Nowhere are forests more luxuriant. Nowhere is there a continent more miserable...
...epic in such terms? Johnson clearly hoped to do so -- with a little help, evidently, from the work of Stuart Davis and Lyonel Feininger as well; several of his images of black Southern life from the early '40s have a wonderful amplitude and strictness of construction that hold their vivid colors together with a sort of consuming, sad energy. They are the blues, in paint. Everything seems right about the pattern of Sowing (circa 1940): the fierce orange and yellow stripes, the eccentric placement and displacement of shape, the not quite naive use of repetition and rhyme, even the comic...
...Democratic National Convention a few weeks ago, keynote speakers Bill Bradley, Zell Miller and Barbara Jordan painted vivid pictures of an America gone awry. The socioeconomic gap between white and Black and rich and poor has always been vast, but since 1981 it seems to have widened even more. Politicians who play on Americans'' increasing fears of race and class strife may very well win the election...