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...pictures on the screen of the two huge high-definition TV sets in a Tokyo hotel ballroom last week were crystal clear. The colors were vivid. The resolution was so fine that the image of the five executives cutting a ceremonial ribbon looked almost three dimensional. The occasion: the expansion of Japan's HDTV broadcasting to eight hours a day, up from the one-hour tests begun in 1989. With its sharpness of picture and CD-like crispness of sound, Japan's HDTV has all the outward appearances of another grand success about to wash over the world...
Keillor paints a vivid picture of Friendly Neighbor. But he calls this novel a radio romance, and no radio romance is complete with only one station and its personalities. But Keillor also succeeds in sketching the lives of WLT's listeners, an essential aspect of the existence of any radio station. One listener that Keillor focuses on is Francis With from Mindren, North Dakota...
Indeed, I should think Landry would agree that this is well overdue. Or I'm sure Robert K. Wasinger would delight in giving his depraved readers more vivid swimming sperm imagery to expose the evils of such unorthodox practices as oral sex, between (gasp) heterosexuals...
...their own very contemporary and very human prejudices have even more to answer for. The Bible and the early Church Fathers, alas, have been used to support and amplify the most base of human conduct and attitude: slavery and the subjugation of women are but two of the most vivid...
...this Friel evokes great sadness, made sadder still by hints and outright warnings from the narrator about what else will befall the beleaguered clan in the half-century between the time he recalls and the time he now inhabits. Yet the play also evokes great joy, in small but vivid exchanges of everyday talk and, most boldly, when the sisters erupt, at home and alone, in the life-embracing energy with which they might once again have danced at Lughnasa...