Word: vividly
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...first thing you notice is how much of the PSP's six and a half inch width is taken up by the surprisingly wide (4.3 inches), cinema-style screen. Intensely bright and vivid, with an LCD screen capable of displaying over 16 million colors, it can be easily viewed at arm's length or from any angle. The controls mimic those of the PlayStation home systems, with four input buttons on the right, a directional pad on the left, and two "shoulder" buttons on the top. It also has a neat little analog "stick," like the kind in laptops, which...
...will meet a real market," where the price of a shirt changes by the hour and can vary by its size and even color. Rivoli doesn't allow the charts and capsules of economic history to drain the book of its color. It is full of memorable characters and vivid scenes, like the "sensory assault" of a textile mill--deafening noise, suffocating air and the "musty-sweet smell of the cotton," she says. "Here in the factory, Shanghai smells like Shallowater, Texas...
...this creative context, the band sketches vivid musical portraits that aim to create a character and face of British rock. They prove themselves to be capable of anthem—the Parklife title track is a peerless statement of purpose, but manage to maintain a humor that gives more resilience to the weaker musical moments, whereas the minute an Oasis song isn’t a song as good as ”Don’t Look Back in Anger,” the high-mindedness and blatant subscription to guitar-rock cliché becomes brutally apparent...
...Vivid colors and European styles mask the subtle political undertones pervading the work of Cuban artists in the “Cuba’Cuba: Island Artists Group Show” that ended its run at the Baak gallery on Brattle Street last Wednesday...
There's an old tradition of gay writers (not to mention actors) expressing themselves through straight characters. Gay audiences saw themselves reflected in vivid women like Blanche DuBois in Tennessee Williams' A Streetcar Named Desire. TV and movie writers created themes and characters that were palatable to straight audiences but tripped the gaydar of knowing viewers--say, Paul Lynde's queeny Uncle Arthur on Bewitched. (In advertising, such dual signals are called gay vague.) Even Sex and the City, with its witty, sexually assertive women, was reminiscent of the old maxim "Write gay, cast straight...