Word: vividness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...ORDER to pull this off without sensationalism or cliche, Rhodes's style has to be cinematically vivid without being florid. He has to be personal enough to carry conviction, familiar enough to take us with him. Ambitious as he is, amazingly, he succeeds. It is rather frightening to realize--after reading a recent Time article ("Cannibalism in the Cordillera") or any newspaper, any day--that this writer's maniacal vision is hardly hyperbole...
...parts of Porgy and Bess. Most of the score, though, is unabashedly dramatic, or at least would like to be. Lacking Puccini's capacity for soaring anguish, Floyd can't pull his listeners out of themselves by their own heartstrings. Once the poisonous mediocrity of his characters' lives becomes vivid, one begins to long for relief from it, for an affirmative statement--any affirmative statement--a high flung vocal line, or a ringing trumpet call, or a verse of "Blow the Man Down." So that while Floyd's opera never completely loses our interest, it never grips it either...
Ever since I can remember I have loved track and swimming, perhaps due in some way to the masochism necessary to achieve success in these two sports. I have vivid memories of swimming in my freshman year in prep school and feeling like I was going to throw up after every practice (I didn't) and running the half mile for the next three years and feeling like I was going to vomit after every race (I did most of the time). I was willing to go through the agony of an 880 and the ritual throwing-up because...
...stories in our twelve-page section on the cease-fire this week, we asked TIME correspondents who have reported from Indochina for their most vivid impressions. Roy Rowan, now in Hong Kong, recalled the atmosphere in June 1948. The military language was French then, the berets red, Americans as scarce as they were later to be ubiquitous. But the datelines - Tay Ninh, Ben Cat, Can Tho, Pleiku - were to remain bloody constants for 25 years...
Treasure of the Sierra Madre. John Huston's finest, most vivid film portrays three bums propsecting for gold in Mexico. Based on a novel by a mysterious Mexican author, B. Traven, the story is an adventure weaved so tightly it becomes allegory. But such a description hides the style of the film. Its portraiture, not just of characters but of Tampico and the bum's life, is as skillful as could be, and the mood ranges from harsh humiliation of Bogart by Alfonso Bedoya, the bandit chief, to dreamy paradise that Walter Huston finds...