Word: vividness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...still the land of "mountains of very great size and beauty, vast plains, groves and very fruitful fields" that enchanted Columbus in 1492, when he landed on the island he called Espanola. In Haiti's unpolluted air, sunsets are breathtaking, night skies are spectacular, and colors so vivid that they have inspired Haitians to become a nation of artists. There are more mundane attractions. Five days in a comfortable Port-au-Prince hotel can cost as little as $125, including breakfasts and dinners-far less than in the more familiar Caribbean isles. Another lure is the quick divorce; Haitian...
When World War II broke out. Weller signed on with the Chicago Daily News and was assigned to cover the Pacific campaign. Weller wrote his dispatches with a real flair for drama; his reports were filled with vivid detail and infused with a sense of immediacy. A tile he titled "I'm still in there Pitching" and datelined "Somewhere in Australia" in which be reconstructed a life-saving operation by pharmacist's mate in a submarine under enemy waters, won him the 1943 Pulitzer Prize for Reporting. It's a tribute to Weller's dramatic flair that his story...
...Testament abounds with related prophecies in Isaiah, Daniel and Ezekiel. Most important, there is the Revelation of St. John, that stunning piece of apocalyptic biblical literature that has fascinated and frustrated interpreters for nearly 19 centuries. It is Revelation that has given art and literature the most vivid images of mankind's terrible last days: the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, the Scarlet Beast and Whore of Babylon, the monster Antichrist and, in Chapter 20, the vision of Christ's 1,000-year reign, the Millennium. Oxford Scholar G.B. Caird, a modern interpreter of Revelation, calls Chapter...
...most interesting and accomplished American film. You might wish that the filmmakers had taken a more objective viewpoint than Mario Puzo, and shown what really happens to the middlemen and junked-up patrons of the Mob's cathouses and clipjoints. But the detailing of inner Mafla workings is vivid and accurate, as is--more importantly-- the Corleone family chronicle. This comes less from plot incident than from the perfect characterizations of Brando's Godfather, and At Pacino, James Caan, and Robert Duvall as his natural and adopted sons. Francis Ford Coppola has directed with a line enough eye to make...
...subject from the flank, through the invented journals and letters of Augustus' family, friends and enemies. He breathes life into Old Friend Maecenas, generous patron of the poet Horace but a terrible versifier himself, and the fluttery Ovid, burlesqued by Williams in a splendidly overblown poem. The most vivid character is Augustus' daughter Julia, a Becky Sharp of the Roman salon...