Word: vividness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...strange vacuum, a palpable absence. Ronald Reagan, for so long a vivid presence in the American consciousness, seemed, for a time at least, to be lost, almost vanishing. One thought of a line from A Passion for Excellence by Tom Peters and Nancy Austin: "The number-one managerial productivity problem in America is, quite simply, managers who are out of touch with their people and out of touch with their customers." The President and his customers were living on different planets...
...military historian who had never seen combat, John Keegan distinguished - himself a decade ago by writing The Face of Battle, a vivid triptych on three epic British battles that had all taken place within about 100 miles of one another: Agincourt (1415), Waterloo (1815) and the Somme (1916). Keegan ignored many considerations of high strategy and concentrated instead on what the ordinary soldiers had encountered through the centuries: the recurring experience of pain, noise, terror, courage, exhaustion...
...film's humorous elements are its greatest attraction. Mastroianni plays a man with a vivid, even clownish imagination, a part at which he is particularly adept. "How could you marry a man like that. He should have been a clown," Romano's mother-in-law says early in the film...
...avid yachtsman, Hoyle has had a close view of environmental damage at sea. "The problem becomes vivid when you sail into an oil slick and have to spend several days cleaning up the boat." The impact of man-made substances on weather shifts is much harder to detect. "You can't see it, touch it or smell it," says Hoyle. "That is precisely what makes the scientific discovery process so important." And precisely what makes this week's cover story such a good detective yarn...
...identity as the peripatetic Patient Zero was confirmed last week by Professor Marcus Conant of the University of California at San Francisco, a pioneer AIDS researcher. But, Conant adds, "if it hadn't been this man, it would have been some other." Dugas' escapades are just one of many vivid and shocking stories in Shilts' impressively researched and richly detailed narrative. The author has been covering AIDS full time for the San Francisco Chronicle since 1983. Most of his tales underscore a theme that is painfully ; familiar to AIDS researchers: both the Federal Government and the gay community squandered lives...