Word: vividly
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...wide dome. One end is clear plate glass, the other a cliff of marble and translucent glass strips. A long ramp leads up to the 2,170 seat Assembly hall. Along the walls are banks of transla tors' booths set in strips of gilded South American mahogany. Two vivid, swirling murals by France's Fernand Leger flank the hall, and over the podium will shine rows of plaques bearing the seals of the 60 United Nations...
...tapestry unwinds slowly, and in a leisurely procession of vivid details-the nuns of Marrick Priory at the harvest, an ousted priest bitterly walking travelers' horses before a church, young squires at archery practice, a merchant cold-bloodedly bartering his wife for a neighbor's gold-the chronicler delicately picks out a background of all England in that...
...masterpieces." He has shushed audiences for covert whisperings, or told them outright to shut up. Over an outraged shoulder, he has hissed at them as "savages" for untimely applause. He has locked the doors on latecomers. He has lectured and admonished audiences from the podium in picturesque and often vivid language. According to Sir Thomas, the British are "a race of barbarians" consistently guilty of musical "turpitude in the lowest degree"; Sheffield "is not civilized"; Belfast Corp. members are "intellectual thugs"; and Seattle is "an esthetic dustbin...
...Chicago last week, could hardly believe the book jackets before their eyes. On one, a girl with a coy come-hither glance was profiled against a street of shadows; on another, a rocket ship looking like a futuristic swordfish zipped across interstellar space; a third, titled Vivid Experiences in Korea, was blocked out with vivid green and orange totem poles. It was all part of Moody Press's current campaign to give soul saving more sales appeal...
Hollywood, which is crowded with luscious cuties, decided that Katharine Hepburn was no great beauty. Her body suggests a collection of fine bones held together by freckles. Her vivid, angular face is topped by red hair pinned up any which way. Her penetrating voice can be as disturbing as some of her strong opinions. When she first arrived in Hollywood, her agent, Myron Selznick, took one look and groaned: "My God, are we sticking them $1,500 a week for this...