Word: vividness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...They might be off not by a day or a week, but by a year or three years," he said. "It's a publicity stunt. They're trying to make vivid" the population problem, Alfonso said, adding that the five billion figure is an "artificial fact...
Reagan inhabits his moment in America with a triumphant (some might say careless or even callous) ease that is astonishing and even mysterious. It is an afternoon in early summer. The sky is a splendid blue, with great cotton clouds floating across it and the grass a vivid field of green. There are noises of celebration in the crowd. Tonight there will be fireworks...
...half a year to live. Shortly after this bad news, Dwyer's house is burglarized. He is not especially surprised, given his courtroom exposures to petty crooks and his knowledge of what goes on in his hometown. But Adam's wife Clara and teenage son Ike have received a vivid impression of how scary the world can be. Worse is to follow, not only for the Dwyers but for everyone else who figures prominently in Geoffrey Wolff's fourth novel. Providence is a tangled tale, ensnarling a number of characters, including a cop and some robbers, who manage to complicate...
...native took advantage of peculiarities in the other's mental makeup provides the revelatory pleasures of a mystery. Dickinson also manages to evoke the evolution of feminism, the modern Islamization of animist tribes, the rise of media hegemony and the fall of the British empire. His descriptions are extraordinarily vivid, his characters plausibly selfish and self-deluding, and his climax is an obliquely told yet unforgettable moment of horror...
...increasingly unpopular regime. Ironic as it is, the white minority government knows well that an increase in oppression of the press will produce a less enraptured audience in America. With the decline in the flow of information and reports out of South Africa, Americans will be deprived of the vivid pictures and descriptions of violence and protest which egg them on to protest. Congressional interest will dwindle without such public pressure--to the delight of the Pretoria government. As after the Sharpville and Soweto riots, South Africa is plotting to gain time out of the limelight to lick its wounds...