Word: vividness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...words "older woman, younger man," and the images are at once vivid and seamy. Sagging socialites clinging to ambitious gigolos. Predatory Mrs. Robinsons seducing confused innocents. At best such autumn-summer pairings have been viewed as risque; at worst, as grotesque curiosities. Well, look again. The odd couple isn't so odd anymore. According to the National Center for Health Statistics, of the 2 million weddings performed each year in the U.S., 22% are between older women and younger men, up from 16% in 1970. "It signals a profound change in how men and women are looking at each other...
This week we are taking Luce's and Hadden's notion one step further. The magazine is introducing a section called Profile, its seventh new department this decade and the first addition since Ethics appeared last January. Profile will consist of a telling, vivid word portrait of one or another of the world's most noteworthy people -- some of whom will figure in the week's news events, all of whom will be interesting. Says Executive Editor Ronald Kriss, who will supervise the section: "There was a time when this magazine featured 52 faces on its cover in the course...
...turn is apparently meant to evoke "time's fade-outs and fade-ins and cross-fades." His first words describe watching his mother's feet and ankles as he lay in infancy on the floor. Colorfully sketched relations come and go, their idiosyncratic histories often beguiling in themselves -- especially vivid is the dying great-grandfather who caught the new rabbi robbing him of his life's savings and pummeled the loot out of him -- but only occasionally do they illumine the writer's developing spirit...
...Deaver's perjury trial last week. He is charged with five counts of lying before a congressional committee and to federal grand jury investigators about his lobbying activities. Although former Government officials have been selling their access and influence for a long time, the Deaver trial provided a vivid look at how prevalent this practice has become...
...essays in broken chords and chugging rhythms, has evolved a more flexible, conventional tonal language, fleshed out with references to past masters (Debussy, Beethoven, Richard Strauss) and even Glenn Miller, as the dramatic situation demands. There has always been a theatricality about Adams' music -- the 1981 Harmonium was a vivid choral setting of poetry by John Donne and Emily Dickinson -- and in Nixon its dramatic qualities have flowered. The figures are sharply characterized: Nixon (James Maddalena), for example, is a gruff baritone whose music is often stiff and halting, while Chairman Mao (John Duykers) is cast as a heldentenor...