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...mounted, untold billions of dollars left the colony; foreign consulates have been flooded with visa applications from jittery locals, businessmen in particular. The value of the Hong Kong dollar fell 40% last year, as did the price of choice properties. The Hang Seng stock market index, perhaps the most vivid thermometer of economic faith, has dipped by more than 30% in the past two years. With confidence somewhat buoyed by Howe's reassurances, it climbed 66.95 points, to 893.69 in a single day last week, its most bullish performance since the talks began in September...
...color also came from the uniforms of the official personnel--part of the official "dynamic color palette" chosen by the Olympic Committee for these games. "Brilliant hot magenta, bright vermillion, clear aqua, rich chrome yellow, and vivid green are the five primary Olympic Look colors," according to a promotional release...
...Somethin', Michael, in good voice and fine form, steps forward again. The brothers blaze their way through a set of 16 tunes, and except for three compositions by his older brother Jermaine, Michael sings lead on them all. He spins, prances, glides, soars and generally gives a vivid illustration of why, after the Victory Tour ends, he will resume flying solo. Michael is the clear star of the show-a Thoroughbred running with pacers-but he always was, even in the Jackson 5 days. No readjustments have been made to accommodate him. It is, simply, that the audience...
MUCH OF the beauty of the book comes from Updike's evocation of growth, metamorphosis, and decay. The most vivid moments portray the possibilities of an apparently depthless sadness; one sometimes feels that Updike, shorn of his religious convictions, would be capable of an analysis of or depiction of true hysteria. Analysis has connected hysteria to femininity and to certain forms of religious conviction; one wishes that Updike would explore such connections, rather than spending his time describing the details of sexual intercourse. In the manner of a writer of farce, he shuns depth to go for laughs instead...
...Time: 1939. Place: England. Situation: ominous. Their country is rushing toward World War II, but the lads of Hornet squadron, in this vivid, bittersweet epic of the R.A.F., believe that the coming Battle of Britain will be a piece of cake...