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...anyone seeing Petta Kelly, one of the Greens "non-leader" leaders on CBS's "60 Minutes" several weeks ago may well wonder about the direction of this party. Her fascinating blend of inspired idealism and personal charisma, anti-American venom and silence about the Soviet Union, adept fabrication of vivid political metaphors and cliches, all of which qualities could be placed in the service of exceedingly unstable policies...
George F. Will: The problem with television, not that it really has any, is that it's a severe to a camera, a peculiar newsgathering instrument. It has severe time constraints - 22 minutes in a newscast - and therefore is more apt to focus on vivid sights such as economic casualties and not economic complexities...
Your couldn't help but think back to Harvard's last regular season game when the Princeton goaltender stopped 55 shots to give the Tigers a 4-2 victory. With each save, the memory became a little more vivid...
...higher with computer printouts. He speaks coolly, even diffidently, and writes in the most leaden Pentagonese (sample: "It is obvious that the cumulative effect of these political externalities has not been able to generate a growth pattern that is compatible with the growth pattern in our plans"). The most vivid words one colleague can find to describe him are "dogged and thorough...
While millions of Americans watched Linda Ronstadt rock through Get Closer on last week's Grammy Award show, millions of others were tuned to a distinctly different beat: the gentle, vivid pulsations of a human heart. For the first time ever, major surgery was broadcast live from an operating room. But whether the performance was a credit to medicine or show biz is a matter of some debate...