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...fine weave of the film is connected by haunting Yiddish melodies. Waletzky blends in interviews with Holocaust survivors, revealing the remarkably vivid recall each emigrant possesses. One elderly woman recites several Yiddish folk songs and prayers, and the mix of her voice with the photography brings us back to the old country. The narration, written by Jerome Badanes, is appropriately spare and unobtrusive. He usually avoids the temptation to moralize, and indeed understatement is what lends Image its unique force...
Filed from Northern Ireland, the column had the vivid detail and emotional wallop that readers of the New York Daily News had come to expect from Michael Daly. Titled "On the Streets of Belfast, the Children's War," it described how British soldiers had wounded a 15-year-old boy when they used real bullets instead of plastic ones to disperse youngsters throwing gasoline bombs. But Daly's account did not ring true at the London Daily Mail. After an investigation, the Daily Mail labeled the column "viciously anti-British" and "a pack of lies," with at least...
THERE ARE TWO kinds of biographies: inspiring accounts that create a vivid awareness of a life, noteworthy or dull; or uninspired accounts of genuinely fascinating lives. Most of the bestselling biographies that flood the market fall into the latter categories--loving accounts of tremendously visible figures. People obviously want to know what it was like to be close to a Fred Astaire, or a Marilyn Monroe, or an Arthur Fiedler. But after the reader's curiosity has coaxed the book's price from his wallet, he is likely to come away with the conviction that--yes--what they taught...
...Return of Patriotism" (March 10, 1980) and "Back to Reticence!" (Feb. 4, 1980) as "sharply observed, deeply felt and very well written Lance Morrow examinations of contemporary American society." Says Morrow, who has been doing Essays for TIME since 1977: "The U.S. is full of possibilities and strange, vivid trajectories. That is why it is so interesting to write about. Americans have a vast moral self-consciousness: they need to know what they think of themselves...
...realized the new value of the "unseen" technology, like electronics and chemistry. and, in their pursuit of power, they perceived that they must keep scientists separated through specialization and unaware of their multiple achievements. The result is inefficiency due to imperfect information. Fuller's description of this seenario is vivid, the references current and convincing...