Word: vividness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...noticed "a dark, novelistic quality" about the John Dean testimony. His vivid descriptions of one-on-one meetings with the President remind one of Clifford Irving's detailed accounts of his meetings with Howard Hughes...
Unlike Nobel Prizewinner Alexander Solzhenitsyn, however, Amalrik is virtually unknown in his own country. His two books have been published only in the West-in violation of Soviet law. In the first, Involuntary Journey to Siberia, he gives a spare, vivid account of his exile to a Siberian collective farm for "parasitism" (failure to hold a regular job). Will the Soviet Union Survive Until 1984? is a political treatise that foretells Russia's ultimate disintegration, and predicted in 1969 that the U.S. and China would reach a rapprochement...
...that desperately poor people during the Depression, would feed on the myth of a rich gangster. But where is the Depression? Behind the opening credits, we see black-and-white photographs (mostly Walker Evan's) of America in the throes of Depression. But when the film proper begins in vivid '70s color, any sense of the period vanishes. Although Depression comes up once or twice in dialogue, none of the locals really has that lean and hungry look. The scenery is so picturesque and colorful that we get no sense of the drabness of the period. Even boarded-up banks...
...other and more serious complaint is that even the most vivid scenes are varnished over with a mournful brown glaze, which has the unfortunate effect of denying the reader his own clear view and his own sense of loss...
...experience of looking at Arbus's photography is so vital because the subject matter and style are thoroughly intertwined. They evolve into a vivid documentary recreation of the artist's personal encounters with reality. Breaking out of the stifling cocoon of a wealthy family, and reacting against the highly stylized fashion photography of her job, Diane Arbus made her foray into the freak world to establish a much needed contact with a hard core reality. She was motivated by this psychological drive and not by any perverse delight in the sensationalism of the subject matter. Overcoming ingrained social inhibitions, Arbus...