Word: vividly
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...happy hosiery manufacturers must be! Some of the liveliest clothes on view were boldly patterned bodysuits and tights. Christian Lacroix, in his strongest ready-to-wear collection yet, had the best and most vivid. Gaultier made them a major theme, combining glittery threads with tweedy textures and flaunting second-skin bodysuits patterned with strategically positioned bull's-eyes...
...many Europeans the inhuman crimes of the Third Reich are as vivid as yesterday. The very word German can cause a shudder; some are convinced that history could repeat itself. Conor Cruise O'Brien, the Irish academic, has a preposterously anachronistic vision: "In the new, proud, united Germany, the nationalists will proclaim the Fourth Reich. I can see some of the consequences: expulsion of Jews, breaking off of relations with Israel, a military mission to the Palestine Liberation Organization, a statue of Hitler in every town...
...changes in the forms of political life that occurred during the punctuated evolution of the period. Mute and spineless holdovers from pre-glasnost days slithered into obscurity and were replaced by frothing creatures distinguished by wide-open mouths and fists thrust upward. Two new autobiographies, published this month in vivid counterpoint, provide a revealing glimpse of this great Soviet transition...
...abstruse ! forms of energy. Like most fantasy novelists, Barker does not feel compelled to be logical or consistent: the dreamlike narrative has a kitchen-sink inclusiveness and cheats the rationalist in that characters turn out in mid- action to be someone else entirely, cunningly disguised. But the images are vivid, the asides incisive and the prose elegant in this joyride of a story...
...their effervescent hostess, Shanghai-born novelist Bette Bao Lord. Well before the advent of the democracy movement in Beijing, she began recording their uncensored life stories. Back in the U.S. after the crackdown, she spliced them together with recollections drawn from her own Chinese roots. The result is a vivid and startling mosaic of the political struggles that foreshadowed the Tiananmen Square uprising...