Word: vividly
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...hairdressers were hopping mad. When Mab Wilson, beauty editor of Vogue, addressed the New York State Hairdressers and Cosmetologists' convention last week on coiffure trends, her audience was fit to be tied. Miss Wilson actually appeared in a vivid green pillbox hat, her hair lushly snooded...
...Caroline Ponsonby. Her lisping voice cooed out words in "the Devonshire House drawl." Said a rival: "Lady Caroline baas like a little sheep." Caroline liked to gallop bareback, to dress in trousers. Sometimes she would scream and tear her clothes, kick the floor with her heels. But she was vivid, fitful, daring and held even outraged relatives spellbound...
...novel begins with the triumphal entry into Jerusalem on Palm Sunday, ends the following Saturday when Judas has hanged himself after Christ's crucifixion. Like others who retell the Gospel narrative, Author Linklater is seldom as vivid as the original, is often unconvincing when he strays from...
...follow-up story the next day, the Post's correspondent added vivid but violently partisan details...
Studio painters of waterfowl make mere decorations. Artist Scott gets in, besides the vivid and light-shot patterns, the weight and tensile trimness of the birds and the precise aerodynamics of their flight. Eventually he hopes to sober up a tendency to melodramatic color. He turns out one painting a week as a fair average, usually sells out his annual show. His mother, now Lady Kennet, an accomplished professional sculptress whose new bust of Bernard Shaw was also shown at Ackermann's, thinks her son is "preposterously prosperous...