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...scientific world, the stimulus is sometimes a surgeon's probe. Montreal Surgeon Wilder Penfield, for example, while performing operations under local anesthesia, by chance found brain sites that when stimulated electrically led one patient to hear an old tune, another to recall an exciting childhood experience in vivid detail, and still another to relive the experience of bearing her baby. Penfield's findings led some scientists to believe that the brain has indelibly recorded every sensation it has ever received and to ask how the recording was made and preserved...
...ability to dig deeply into the psychology of opera's more peculiar characters. She sang Elektra in the Metropolitan's first production of the Strauss opera in 1932, upsetting some critics by her classical vocalism in this frenzied role, sending others into raves even for her vivid dancing. Among her admirers was Richard Strauss himself, who at the time preferred her Elektra to all others...
Married couples are as free as fencers. In the thrust and parry, each partner pinks the other, helping to drain away the anger and frustration that might otherwise fester within and poison the self. But the divorced person shadowboxes with a vivid phantom, the past. He or she is bound to an enemy that cannot be hit or flattened-memory. For the divorced, recollection is impacted pain. Regrets, bitterness, envy, hate stalk the mind...
...have a vivid image of the occupation of Lawrence Hall," Cox said, "We didn't take steps then and look what happened. It ended in a dangerous fire during which a brick wall fell on firemen...
...among them. All that carries the drama smoothly from shot to shot is the force of their playing. Each character takes a different acting style (melodramatic heroine, slapstick clown) to an extreme; and the series of comic reversals which their conflicts of style engender becomes a social process so vivid that it overrides the startling disjunction between one composition and the next...