Word: vividness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...conventional wisdom that Jackson had been undermining all through the primaries. Before the 1988 campaign, Jackson was regularly discussed as a threat to the Democratic Party, one who would damage the nominee as he is supposed to have damaged Walter Mondale in 1984. Jackson is the most vivid symbol of those "special interests" (blacks, women, gays, teachers, unions) that were supposed to have trammeled the Democratic Party, making it their captive. (As Studs Terkel points out, the really powerful lobbies, for gun owners and doctors and corporations, are not called special interests -- they are just average citizens, the privileged again...
...covers the years leading up to the outbreak of World War II, when Churchill was indisputably right. Out of power and derided as a crank, he sounded the alarm about the terrible plot being hatched inside Hitler's deranged mind. The story is familiar, but, told with skill and vivid anecdotes by Manchester, it continues to shock and horrify. Four times, by Churchill's count, firm action could have stopped Hitler without a shot's being fired; four times Britain's leaders, along with their counterparts in France, ignored or willfully misinterpreted the evidence: Hitler was hungry, and he planned...
STILL, Noses is a vivid example of what resources like extra money, use of the Loeb Manistage and some help from the professionals at the American Repertory Theater can do; try producing this play with its 30-member cast in, say, the basement of Adams House. Director Nestor Davidson makes good use of the large stage, both visually and spatially. The set seems accurate in its frugality, focusing attention on the players and not the stage--though Davidson does sneak in some impressive special effects. In one scene, for example, alleged heretics are literally noosed onstage while other characters examine...
...spite of the clever script's vivid characters, the rest of the actors give uneven performances. Linda Klaamas, who plays the Clara the maid, has a few truly comic moments, but these brief seconds do not constitute a great performance...
...author has lavished an accumulation of vivid detail on re-creating his special part of the world. "He's immensely attached, in the most loving way, to Cairo," says Edward Said, a professor of English and comparative literature at Columbia University. Indeed, Mafouz seldom leaves the city, where he lives in a modest apartment with his wife and two daughters. Retired in 1971 from his post as an adviser to the Minister of Culture, he spends most of his time in cafes, drinking coffee and exchanging gossip. He is also known as one of the best joke tellers in Cairo...