Word: vividness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Dolphin, both published in 1973, took Lowell through the termination of his second marriage and the beginning of his third. The poetry in those two paired volumes was only infrequently up to Lowell's best, but the sustained drama of the situation-and the poet's vivid evocations of both anguish and exhilaration-provided enough momentum to carry even weak poems along...
More often, Berkowitz couched his strange ideas in vivid verbiage. Said part of a note found in his car: "And huge drops of lead/ Poured down upon her head/ Until she was dead. Yet the cats still come out at night to mate; and the sparrows still sing in the morning...
...early 20s, however, Colin is becalmed and resentful, a teacher of dull-eyed children in a coal town, a survivor of a glum and perfunctory love affair. His only vivid feeling is rancid hatred for a placid younger brother who accepts a miner's life as normal...
...number of features, including "Topics," a collection of short and sometimes snappy commentaries. Frankel (who reports directly to Publisher Sulzberger) has also expanded the range of subject matter and sharpened the bite of opinion on the page, though the point of view is sometimes difficult to track through the vivid prose...
Suddenly, Dr. Fried and Deborah are toasting each other in a too sweet victory celebration, which is capped by upbeat footage of Deborah and her now cured friend gamboling in the countryside near the hospital. After a good many touching and vivid moments, the film ends not with a bang but a simper...