Word: vividness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...really another Joplin. Janis was big and blowsy; Patti is a somewhat haunted-looking waif who stands 5 ft. 5 in. and weighs all of 95 Ibs. Janis liked to stretch her whisky-hoarse voice into a shredding scream now and then; Patti's vivid soprano has power to spare, but she often prefers to communicate in a throaty, low chant. What she does have in common with Joplin is a throbbing emotionality and naked intensity. Says Smith: "I want every faggot, grandmother, five-year-old and Chinaman to be able to hear my music and say YEAH...
...Vivid Portrait. The question of whether Napoleon was a Corsican, a Frenchman or the first true European leader evokes a vivid Durant portrait...
...that he understands so well the real nature of neurotics. Being a neurotic is a life-long affair with its own set of patterns and institutions--unhappy love relationships, psychoanalysis, various combinations of sedatives and stimulants, an acute sensitivity to the sources of one's own pain, and a vivid fantasy life. In between, sometimes in the very midst of periods of depression, the neurotic is capable of remarkable insight into his behavior and its motivation, and yet feels himself entirely incapable of change...
Happily, the Quincy House Theatricals' version of Miss Lonelyhearts is really an adaptation of an adaptation. Director Stephen Kolzak has meticulously revamped the Teichmann script, pruning away some of its most inane lines and inserting wherever possible more vivid segments from the novel. While he succeeds in eliminating glaring sexism and cliched passages like...
Perhaps no one but Naipaul has the inside and outside knowledge to have turned such a dispirited tale into so gripping a book. His island is built entirely of vivid descriptions and offhand dialogue. At the end, it has assumed a political and economic history, a geography and a population of doomed, selfish souls. Partisans of all stripes will argue that Naipaul has maligned their ideologies: not all revolutionary leaders are pathological perverts, not all benevolent whites are deluded do-gooders. These cavils are as irrelevant as they are true. Guerrillas is not a polemic (polemicists will be annoyed...