Word: vividness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Peck effectively draws upon just these childhood memories. We are amused by the dances in CityStep not just because the children are so winsome, but because they are reminders of our own, still vivid, elementary school memories. In the dance "Classroom", Peck uses only members from the CityStep company, blurring the distinction between adult and child. Suddenly we are oack in that interminable fifth grade history class, bothered by that hotshot who always knows the answers, scornful of the peabrain who thinks she knows the answer but then cannot get it out. The hands of the clock drag, boredom sets...
...Texas oilman has reaped his vast payoffs through the mastery of the takeover battle, a colorful form of corporate warfare fought with dollars, stock and shareholder votes. The campaigns are as vivid as the terminology of their tactics (see box). A takeover raider typically launches his attack by buying a significant percentage of a firm's stock and offering to pay other shareholders more than the current market level for their securities. The goal is to get enough shares--typically 51%--to win control of the company and the ability to run it. Management and the raider frequently get into...
Peacock, 43, a Viet Nam veteran, a colonel in the Marine Corps Reserve and an Assistant Secretary of the Army from 1980 to 1981, had "flown with many a test pilot," and was able to give a vivid, technical account of what happened next. "By the time I returned to my seat, the horizontal force was at least five Gs (five times that of gravity), making it impossible for me to fasten my seat belt . . . Then it eased up a bit to maybe one or two Gs. But the plane was continuing downward. Clearly the pilot was trying to pull...
...laid. The East German artisans were not quite starting from the ground up. After the bombardment by British and American warplanes, the building's shell was left standing, and although the interior was badly burned, some original details remained as clues to the materials Semper had used. The acoustics--vivid and unforced, warm and full-bodied--are a particular triumph. The rebuilt Semper Opera disproves the notion that acoustics are still a hit-or-miss proposition: just build a classic horseshoe of wood and plaster, and fill it with statuary and curtains, then sit back and savor the beautifully blended...
...definitive," in the sense that no further books are written to challenge their interpretation. But docudramas have far less often retraveled ground covered by previous examples of the genre. If the only show on a subject is erroneous, corrective information may not sink in when conveyed in the less vivid form of print. The TV networks are plainly within their constitutional rights to make docudramas, and to express whatever point of view they wish. Their output may add to public knowledge and enrich public debate. But given what misimpressions of history a docudrama may also leave, the furor in Atlanta...