Word: vividness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...show. Saturday Night, subtitled "a backstage history," does remarkably thorough research on incredibly haphazard troupes. Authors Doug Hill and Jeff Weingrad sometimes let enthusiasm get in the way of level judgment--Baudelaire and Blake are cited among S.N.L's spiritual fathers--but their book works up a vivid frontline fever as it relates the conceptual brawls, bad trips on the twin drugs of cocaine and sudden fame, psychological entanglements, romantic skirmishes and perpetual pitched battles with the censors involved in getting the show launched. Michaels, his cast and his writers saw themselves as comedic fifth columnists at NBC. The network...
...Wilderness of dirty rotten Sheds, allways tumbling or takeing Fire, with winding crooked passages, lakes of Mire and rills of stinking Mud, as befits the smokey grove of Moloch." In the eerie interplay between the earlier age and our own, Ackroyd has fashioned a fictional architecture that is vivid, provocative and as clever as, well, the devil...
...that the tragedy played itself out to maximum dramatic effect: the shuttle, now boringly routine, lifting off and then annihilating itself in full view of the world. It is true that television pitched itself fervently into what has become its sacramental role in national tragedies -- first wounding with its vivid repetitions of the event, then consoling, grieving, reconciling, administering the anchor's unctions. It is true that Christa McAuliffe, a teacher representing all the right things in America, rode as a nonprofessional, an innocent, into space, and her death therefore seemed doubly poignant and unfair...
...month federal trial that ended last week in Kansas City. The five were charged with helping to skim some $2 million from the Stardust and Fremont casinos. Glick, who bought the casinos in 1974 with $87 million in loans from the Teamsters' Central States pension fund, gave the court vivid details of how the Mob muscled in on his operation...
Kurosawa visualizes his great battle scenes similarly. They begin in heartbreaking beauty, the banners and uniforms of the soldiers vivid against the dark ground where they maneuver for position in patterns as stylized as chess moves. This naturally intensifies the horror of the ensuing carnage, the mad tangle of flailing, falling bodies, of spurting blood and hacked-off limbs, in which the question of whether a man lives or dies is entirely a matter of chance. In what is perhaps his greatest coup, Kurosawa plays much of the film's central battle in a total silence infinitely more terrifying than...