Word: vividness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Darrach paints all his characters with rich strokes. Almost too rich, in fact. He describes one U.S. chess official as a "Huckleberry Babbitt," a man whose "pink scalp looks like a ham in mourning." Such vivid excesses might be well placed in a short treatment. But served in book-length bunches, the cumulative effect is a bit like overdosing on chocolate fudge...
Magnus has taken on vivid reality for Harriet, though he is the invention of a skilled detective-story writer named Montague Small, who, to the extent that he is a friend of anything, is a friend of the family. Each week Small supplies Blaise with newly elaborated symptoms. Magnus has supposed himself, for instance, to be a large egg and, during another crisis, has imagined that he is stalked by a wooden-legged bishop...
When the Japanese government announced in 1963 that it planned to build a nuclear-powered ship, there was widespread criticism. Memories of Hiroshima and Nagasaki were much too vivid for the Japanese people to accept even peaceful applications of atomic energy...
...seemingly small change can have big repercussions. If each young family in the U.S. decided to have two children, the population in 2030 would reach 264 million. But if each family decided to have three, the population would be 444 million (see chart). Demographers have used an unattractive but vivid metaphor to describe the long-term effects of a baby boom. They compare the assimilation into society of the 64 million postwar babies, the largest cohort in U.S. history, to the process by which a python digests...
...Richard D. Stewart and colleagues at the Medical College of Wisconsin have found that it does not mix with alcohol. After working for about three weeks with TCE, a man who stops at the corner saloon for a few beers or a couple of boilermakers develops vivid red blotches on the face. This degreaser's flush is so unsightly and persistent that men who wish to be rid of it have a hard choice: quit drinking or quit...