Word: vividness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...suffered all the icy vicissitudes common last week to so many of their fellow Americans. Cover Writer Ed Magnuson, who performed his duties in the comfortable 70° temperature of his 25th-floor office overlooking a frigid Manhattan, had no difficulty even in those circumstances in conjuring up the vivid sensations of his Minnesota boyhood, when winter temperatures could dip as low as -40° and cross-country skiing on the Mississippi River outside his door was a fairly common sport. The cold fact is that this is Magnuson's 65th cover story for TIME, another record...
Trollope took six volumes and about 4,400 leisurely pages to tell the story. In dramatizing it, Raven has indeed taken considerable, but for the most part justifiable license with the material. Several subplots and some vivid characters have been eliminated entirely. Some important new scenes have been added-Glencora and Plantagenet are already married, for example, when Trollope begins the Palliser novels-and dialogue has been modernized. "I could seldom transcribe Trollope's text for more than two speeches at a time," says Raven. "I had to invent and deploy my own 'Trollopese...
Doubtlessly, all concerned with this enormous, expensively cast and heavily flacked "prestige" production were earnestly anxious to make a vivid, powerful statement about this central American historical drama. It was brave of them to try to do so in the unlikely precincts of prime-time commercial tele vision. It appears, however, that in their fervor not to be misunderstood, to be clearly on the side of the angels, they have set aside all common sense. In the one-third of their work available in advance to critics, not one sympathetic white character appears. Not a single black man of less...
...precocious writer whose four-volume Diary dissected the female psyche; in Los Angeles. Born in Paris to musician parents, Nin began her diary at age eleven when her father deserted the family. She later wrote about artistic life in the '30s and '40s, penning vivid portraits of such novelists as Lawrence Durrell, Gore Vidal and her longtime friend Henry Miller...
...even a reader who cannot identify with the author's rude stereotypes is likely to feel the urgent excitement of these books. Author Rogers possesses theatrical flair and truly grand vulgarity. Her books are built, like action movies, from a rapid series of short, vivid scenes. Readers who do keep reading have no time to pause and reflect on the preposterousness of what is happening. Seized by the throat, the poor geese are force-fed events events events as the action mounts to a terrific climax in which lust sprouts little pink wings and Beauty fetters Beast with...