Word: vividness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...ending does not quite match Carrie's, perhaps because the picture as a whole does not work as powerfully on one's emotions. The reason is that Carrie herself existed in an ordinary milieu, a middle-class high school. The contrast between it and her "talent" was vivid. Then, too, Carrie was such a plain mousy little thing, so set upon by her peers that one derived vengeful satisfaction when she-literally-brought the house of her tormentors down around them. By contrast, The Fury exists from the start in the fictional world of movies and paperbacks...
...White House that sports a Gay Nineties decor and a clientele that can range, on a given evening, from Washington office workers to White House staffers, along with political powers like House Majority Leader Tip O'Neill. As Columnist Rudy Maxa told it in a short but vivid item in the Washington Post Sunday Magazine, Jordan turned up one Friday evening with some friends, introduced himself to a young woman as Harvey Phillips and tried to strike up a conversation. When the woman, identified only as "an attractive advertising copywriter," ignored him, Maxa wrote, Jordan angrily spat some...
...down in the sea," said Melling casually. "There are sharks in these waters, but that's where we'll go." He described in vivid detail the risks of ditching: the wheels break off, the plane smashes open, passengers are disgorged helplessly into waiting schools of sharks. This so upset Mohammed that he eagerly agreed to try landing at Djibouti, which was Melling's alternative...
...entangled with his celebrity-Ali may be the most famous man in the world. Since he took the heavyweight title from Sonny Listen in Miami Beach 14 years ago, "the Greatest" has been the protagonist of a vast popular psychodrama in which sport was only a part. But more vivid than his conversion to Islam, his anti-Viet Nam politics or his famous mouth is the memory of his sweet dancing vitality in the ring. That recollection played in the back of people's minds, almost in their subconscious, last week as they watched a 36-year...
...bamboo tube. In containers that may be ceramic sculptures or Chinese wine kegs, Sofu will blend the blooms with shells, stones, iron, leaves, driftwood, dried grass, dead flowers or dyed feathers. Explaining his break with tradition, he once proclaimed: "We should always look forward to a fresh and vivid world and not become buried in retrospection...