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...most vivid memory," Rodriguez recalls--and his large, brown eyes flash--"is the concentration camp they brought us to for 72 hours before we got on the boat--thousands of people sleeping on rocks with no food. We were beaten and mistreated by police and police dogs...
...that despite some continuing disputes among top leaders, Peking has become sufficiently stable to allow such a delicate matter as the sins of the Gang of Four to be aired. Certainly, the trial will generate considerable excitement among the millions of Chinese for whom the Cultural Revolution remains a vivid memory...
...wrote his letters in the morning, when he was sober. He wrote his diary at night when he was drunk." On the evidence of the 840 letters collected here, Waugh sometimes tippled while he corresponded, but the contrast between this book and his Diaries (published in 1977) is as vivid as that between a buoyant raconteur and a mean lush. Here is Waugh effusively thanking Harold Acton for sending his latest book: "A work of that kind, so rich and learned, .must be studied with proper reverence." He told his diary something different: Acton's book was "unreadable...
...loose, messy story of enduring friendships, and Sayles films it all as simply and loosely as possible. There are, however, three "cinematic" sequences, the first a lyrical, stunningly vivid skinny-dipping scene, in which sparkling water explodes around shiny male bodies, the others an intense basketball game and an intense bit of wood-cutting by an abandoned lover. Sound and editing point up the emotional undercurrents of these montages, and the effects are crude and somewhat heavy-handed. But they are exciting all the same: Sayles is enlarging his cinematic vocabulary, and one anticipates its refinement with pleasure...
...style, Terkel lets others answer the question for him. Those who lived through the Depression told their story in Hard Times; assorted laborers talked about what they did for a living in Working. In American Dreams, Terkel achieves the extraordinary goal for constructing a book with vivid theme without writing more than a few paragraphs of text. Again, his people supply the words, but Terkel's marvellously aggressive listening and sensitive editing combine to form a lush, almost overgrown book about Americans and their dreams...