Word: vividness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...interesting." His neighbor, Art Dealer Klaus Perls, replied: "Maybe I can persuade Alexander Calder to design it for us." The celebrated sculptor was delighted. "We will do Rio one better," he said, and charged no fee for his services. By May, Calder's sketch of a series of vivid geometrical shapes (including his initials) was translated into engineering drawings. Then one night recently, workmen set the design in black and white terrazzo...
...scene suffused with silence and peace and the prospect of wonderful things to come. I was completely conscious of the chair in which I sat, of the room and its surroundings and of Dr. Houston, but at the same time the experience of being in that boat was as vivid as if I were in a waking dream. Never at any time in the next half-hour did I feel any dulling of consciousness or free will...
...sacred place. I answered that the problem of injustice was to me the most difficult reality of life to accept. I recalled that as a child I became upset even at the make-believe injustices I saw in Lassie movies or read in Polly Pepper books. Then I had vivid mental images of real-life horrors throughout history, like the Inquisition and the Holocaust of the Jews during World War II. I saw the petty injustices that people commit against each other every...
...temperature range. Colors are arbitrarily selected. Warmest areas are represented by shades of red and orange. Medium temperatures come out in yellow and green, while the coldest spots are violet, blue and black. The advantage of a color thermogram over black and white is that most people can distinguish vivid colors more easily than shades of gray...
...courtroom, a young woman spectator in the back row cried softly. There was, audibly, the release of withheld breathing after the most vivid passages. The jurors leaned back, remembering suddenly to use their notebooks. Manson's co-defendants-Miss Krenwinkel, Susan Atkins and Leslie Van Houten-sat still and attentive, their foreheads now scratched with the outcast's X that he had cut into himself earlier in the trial...