Word: vividness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...clear analysis, vivid descriptions andsuperior lecturing skills aside, this singularability to generate more enthusiasm for learningmakes Professor Brinkley's contribution to hisstudents invaluable," Woo said...
...predecessor of the KGB) and sentenced to Siberian exile. Some of his friends try to organize a protest petition. A few people sign it, but most find excuses not to. One of them becomes an informer for the NKVD and finally a full-fledged agent. Some of the most vivid scenes in the novel are detailed descriptions of NKVD investigations, arrests and interrogations...
After fighting with the Red Army as far as Berlin and winning medals for heroism, Rybakov returned home. "I went to the house at No. 51 Arbat, and suddenly it all came rushing back to me, vivid and strong," he says. "All my friends, my comrades, were gone -- some killed in the war, some killed before ^ it, some gone to other things. I began moving toward the book then...
This first room also contains many finelandscapes, historical paintings and portraitsfrom the period. Arkhip Kuindzhi's landscape,"Lake Ladoga" (1870) is an early example of hiswork, but its vivid browns, yellows and blue-grayshow his concern that the nature he portrays notbe merely serene...
With its thrillingly melodic Tchaikovsky score, its elegant dances, its vivid evocation of a faraway fairy kingdom, The Sleeping Beauty is the quintessential classical ballet. Everyone should see it as a child and as an adult, and every company should have an exquisite production to offer...