Word: vividness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...gradual withdrawal from the U.S. was under way. In 1963 he began spending much of his time in Rome, soaking up local color for his first novel in ten years. Julian (1964), a vivid study of the 4th century Roman Emperor who vainly tried to stem the spread of Christianity, was a surprise bestseller. A string of successful novels followed, including the memoirs of Myra Breckinridge (1968), Vidal's funniest word on fuddled sexual identity...
...older. And on "Cracked Actor" he paints a gruesome portrait of superannuated sex--"Forget that I'm fifty cause you just got paid/Suck, baby, suck, give me your head/Before you start professing that you're knocking me dead." But his evocation of transience and loss is even more vivid on "Five Years," a song that uses a cliched sci-fi formula--the sudden end of the world--to ingenious effect...
...government was systematically corroding and stifling our artistic life," Rostropovich said last year. "They wanted to prove that we did not exist. We were treated like lepers. We lost our identity. It was like looking into a mirror and not finding your reflection. In Russia," he said with characteristically vivid imagery, "if one blade of grass grows higher than another, they send in bulldozers to trim it down...
...nation a full answer to questions about his financial dealings when he resigned in 1974, but no explanation has ever come forth. He is still rich, head of his party's biggest faction, and a major architect of Liberal Democratic strategy. But the Lockheed affair is a vivid reminder of the cloud of suspicion that still surrounds Tanaka...
...pretty much solved them all, making room for his own rose-tinted theatrics. To make the story move more smoothly he shuffled several scenes out of their original order, omitted a few, altered the plot a little, and added some lines to the dialogue. To make the characters more vivid and sympathetic, he put together a young, good-looking cast, all of whom sing and act surprisingly well, and who actually look like the characters they play. He achieved an intimacy rarely possible in staged drama by filming his singers mostly in close-up and bathing them in warm, golden...