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...author has lavished an accumulation of vivid detail on re-creating his special part of the world. "He's immensely attached, in the most loving way, to Cairo," says Edward Said, a professor of English and comparative literature at Columbia University. Indeed, Mafouz seldom leaves the city, where he lives in a modest apartment with his wife and two daughters. Retired in 1971 from his post as an adviser to the Minister of Culture, he spends most of his time in cafes, drinking coffee and exchanging gossip. He is also known as one of the best joke tellers in Cairo...
...foremost literary figure in Egypt in the late '40s and '50s, Naguib Mahfouz is the first Arab language writer to receive the Nobel Prize for literature in the 87-year history of the award. His works are known throughout the Middle East for their vivid descriptions and insights about turbulent social change in postwar Egypt, according to Harvard experts on Arabic literature...
...State House, restaurant lights at Faneuil Hall, tile mosaics in the T, that huge cantilevered sculpture thing in front of the aquarium. Whatever. The secondhand knowledge you have about Boston, as a center for culture, weird Irish politicians or cramped New England architecture, will be far less vivid to you than the things you've actually seen...
People who are still looking for jobs live in a city that is a series of widely scattered, but vivid, encounters. I decided to see Boston as a new arrival, in search of work. Starting, of course, at Logan Airport...
VISUALLY, the ads are arresting and unique, slightly surreal, almost random. They feature very bright, vivid images that are usually accelerated or in some other way distorted. The voiceover sounds like an old radio announcer and the music is a tango played by violin and piano. The ads use light in a unique way so that shadows and bright spots seem connected to nothing...