Word: vividness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...rose about 21% last year, v. 0.6% for the liquor industry as a whole. Besides its "full-strength" (up to 75 proof) cocktails such as tequila sunrises and mai tais, Heublein is also marketing drinks with less punch (as low as 25 proof) but more in the way of vivid color: the Pink Squirrel, for instance, could be taken for Pepto-Bismol. Schenley is bidding for a share of the premixed market with a new line of twelve drinks-including an apricot sour...
...PUBLIC. In March, by revealing the U.S. negotiating position with considerable fanfare even before Cyrus Vance had his first meeting with Leonid Brezhnev, Jimmy Carter learned a vivid lesson in how not to deal with Moscow. The Soviets are conservative and secretive; they publicize the workings of government only for purposes of propaganda. Nor do they appreciate or even understand the Western practice of leaking information to the press...
Nixon's memories of Nikita Khrushchev were vivid. He was "boorish, crude, brilliant, ruthless, potentially rash, with a terrible inferiority complex." He would put on a "big macho act to prove that he was ahead of everybody and everything." Part of the act was his "air of being just a common, peasantlike person... with a sloppy hat and a collar that wouldn't be too clean...
...away the most vivid impression that emerges from Festival is the spectrum of genres and rhythms the band incorporates into its act. For instance, it's a big leap from the rhythm and blues beat of "Reach Up" to the heavily Latino-flavored tempo of "Maria Caracoles." The catchy rock rhythm of the second half of "The River" calls to mind some of Fleetwood Mac's most irresistible numbers, an impression that Leon Patillo's lead vocals do much to underscore...
...poet laureate of the commonplace. He once wrote that "on the stage everything should be as complex and as simple as in life. People are having dinner, and while they're having it, their future happiness may be decided or their lives may be shattered." In presenting vivid, selective glimpses of ordinary life, Chekhov simultaneously plumbs the nature of existence with its brevity, hope, joy and sorrow. He is an impressionist rather than a photographer. In his plays we know that virtually nothing has happened, but we feel that much has been said...