Word: vividness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Vivid Writing...
...Yorkers are disaster-prone, and they rather relish it. Muggings, burglaries, strikes and technological failures of all kinds form part of the daily news fare. A New Yorker would count the day lost if he could not regale an out-of-towner, or a friend, or himself, with some vivid tale of megalopolitan woe. The past master of this urban gallows humor is Neil Simon, and in The Prisoner of Second Avenue he has written his finest play since The Odd Couple...
...Civil War, France during the Resistance. From novelist to reporter, revolutionary to Resistance fighter, adventurer to Cabinet Minister, he often seemed to be history's chosen witness. "There is no question," writes Pierre Galante in Malraux, his recent biography, "that of all Malraux's work, the most vivid, the most tragic, the richest adventure has been the story of his own life." A French journalist and editor of Paris-Match, Galante gleaned a wealth of new detail on the "intimate Malraux" from 30 interviews with the former Culture Minister. He relates, for example, that the sartorially elegant Malraux...
Shabby Militancy. Despite the zealous attention of his guides and hosts, Terrill was able to produce a report that sparkles with vivid, neatly turned insights. Plastered with fading banners left over from the Cultural Revolution, Canton "has a face of shabby militancy." The sight of people eagerly studying Maoist literature, Terrill suggests, "would surely delight an eighteenth-century philosophe; the 'Word' is sovereign." He was amused to find that brassières, "though widely available in shops, were not, it seemed, in frequent...
...vivid enough evocation of "police brutality," but it is also a Keystone copout. Why do the vaudevillian police suddenly attack the other dancers? Why does the Spanish lady's flamenco collapse into a laugh-creating parody of itself? The answer, of course, is that those actions titillate theatrically-for an instant. Ballet, an art of linear grace and movement, is even less a medium of pure intellect than painting or opera. But it is not made relevant by playing games with half-digested references to yesterday's headlines...