Word: vividness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...thousands who flock each summer weekend to its white sand beaches and boardwalk carnival rides, Asbury Park, N.J., seems a tidy, if somewhat faded haven of tranquillity. But it is also, like many American small towns, a community where "across the tracks" still has a vivid, invidious meaning. To the east of the Penn Central railroad line, where well-kept lawns sweep toward the Atlantic Ocean, live most of Asbury Park's 12,500 whites. On the West Side, in a ghetto of frame houses splaying out from Springwood Avenue, live most of Asbury Park...
...social conventions that confine Hedda. This Hedda would be no happier if she ran a company or broke out of her marriage. She is a victim not of society but of herself. She still flails viciously at the lives around her, but only in the throes of a long, vivid, tormented and inevitably losing struggle with her own divided nature...
...scrupulous account of a creative mind should do, this show explores the earliest years, particularly the vivid paintings done in Corsica in 1898 and hardly seen since. The most sweeping changes that Matisse was to make are shyly explored in those first pictures. He celebrated well-laden tables, played with the refractions of light in liquid and glass, and caressed fruits and rich surfaces. He was hypnotized by the mysterious contrast between the cool interior and the hot partial view through the open window. But it was the human form that held for him the ultimate sensuous appeal...
Like the Paris student uprising two years ago, the U.S. student strikes over Cambodia and Kent State had a spontaneous and vivid byproduct: a sudden flood of impassioned graphic art, always polemical, often bitter, sometimes extraordinarily eloquent. Hundreds of thousands of protest posters poured out of campus workshops. One group at Stanford put together a collection from California campuses for a ten-day show in a Washington, D.C., church hall that ended last week. The students sold posters and lithographs for prices ranging from 500 to $70 to raise money for peace candidates...
...changed a little, since I now felt safer in Roxbury than in New York. But I wasn't any happier about seeing drunks sleeping in the streets. And maybe my memory isn't as vivid as I had always thought it was, but this time New York seemed like rivers of filth flowing down one way streets between canyons of concrete buildings...