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They should talk to the parents of those who served in the Vietnam war and ask them if it would have been all right if the war dragged on for a few more years. If the vivid TV images of the My Lai massacre and more mundane tragedies were only seen in sterile, still newspaper photos, it certainly would have...
...then do Alzheimer's patients often retain vivid memories of childhood events...
...argues that God is a Republican and Santa Claus is a Democrat because God is a tough, unsentimental S.O.B. and Santa Claus is a sweet old fellow who doesn't exist. The rightful place for democracy, he writes, is "to shut up and get out of our faces." Such vivid images reinforce the book's conclusion: "The whole idea of our government is: if enough people get together and act in concert, they can take something and not pay for it . . . Every government is a parliament of whores. The trouble is, in a democracy, the whores...
...hallmark of her choreography, as well as her performances, was fierce concentration and intensity. She went for the biggest, broadest gesture, the most vivid rage, the most startling image of love. What interested her was not the airiness and elevation of ballet. She made the earth her touchstone and reveled in the downward pull of gravity...
...friend John are much less important than the Vietnamese, and the action is largely confined to Asia. The play's real subject is what "they" -- Third World people, Asian people -- think of the basically Western "us" that is presupposed to be the audience. To make Kim and the Engineer vivid when they reveal almost nothing of themselves except their fantasies of these distant others requires skillful acting and incandescent star quality. The London production had both, and Mackintosh fought fiercely to bring its two leads -- each of whom won the Olivier Award, London's equivalent of the Tony -- to Broadway...