Word: vividly
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...only to Frederic Remington's. "Those tired old nags at the rodeo," he says chuckling into his snowy cavalry mustache, "don't know the first thing about bucking." Invited on two scientific expeditions to Africa, Leigh sketched constantly and confidently, came back to paint a series of vivid panoramas for the New York Museum of Natural History's African Hall...
...painting from the model or still life. The window looks out on to the uncared-for garden, and provides the quietest view in the room. Everywhere else one looks is blazing with color: bright silk cushions, bric-a-brac, copper vases, flowers, fruits, costume jewelry, feathers, and yards of vivid material looped over chairs or hanging ready for his models. In one corner stands a huge aviary which used to be flashing with Milanese pigeons (most of them died during the war). An old-fashioned country telephone perches on a stand in one corner. The walls are thick with paintings...
Parrying the Line. His most vivid chapter is on the perils of dating. It sounds like one of those strange Indian rites in which warriors are permitted to wear feathers only after they have gotten a certain number of wounds. "What distinguishes the 'date' from other conversation is a mixture of persiflage, flattery, wit and love-making which was formerly called a 'line' but which each generation dubs with a new name. The 'line' is an individual variation of a commonly accepted pattern which is considered to be representative of a facet...
...Streetcar Named Desire. Tennessee Williams' sharply vivid chronicle of a nymphomaniac's downhill flight from reality (TIME...
...known that the effect of the Mahler was immense. It is impossible to say whether this was a good or bad performance of the Symphony, as it has not been played often enough to provide a basis of comparison. But it was certainly an interesting, a spectacular, a vivid performance. The music supposedly concerns in the first movement, a man's death, in the second and third, various reflections about his life, in the fourth, a search for the primal light, and in the fifth, the day of judgment. You would never guess this, however, unless you were a program...