Word: vividness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...nothing pastel or pale about Gloria Allred. From her jet-black hair to her brilliant red lipstick to her usual attire of electric purple or Chinese-red dresses, she is as brightly colored as her name suggests. But there is a lot more to this Los Angeles attorney than vivid packaging. By adroitly combining showy tactics and solid scholarship, Allred over the past ten years has become one of the nation's most effective advocates of family rights and feminist causes. Declares Allred: "The law should be a sword and shield against the wrongs that women are forced...
...shallowest major character in the novel. He reads good books, idealizes justice and respects religion. But if he has a thought subtler than how to trap his enemies, he keeps it to himself. By contrast, Aspanu Pisciotta, the hero's friend and chief lieutenant, has a vivid psychology that eventually sustains Horace's 2,000-year-old observation that "Sicilian tyrants never invented a greater torment than envy...
...remember as the most vivid of the episodes of the long trail of 1984 the redefinition of the Democratic Party at its convention in San Francisco. The faces and feel were so completely different that only by effort could I remember the Democratic conventions of the '50s, dominated by Southerners and big-city politicians. Eighteen percent of the delegates in 1984 were black; 6.5% were Hispanic; Indians...
MATEP'S ENEMIES in Brookline and Mission Hill have used a variety of legal schemes to stalemate the plant since 1976. They have vivid interpretations of Weiss's recommendation. According to Brookline selectman Zvi Sesling, Weiss was saying that "Harvard can do something that nobody else can do--legally kill four people." According to Louis Horwitz, chairman of the seven-year-old Neighborhood Organizations Mobilized Against the Total Energy Plant (NOMATEP), "That's sick. I don't know of any country other than Nazi Germany that is able to put a price on human life." And according to Brookline lawyer...
...Equus and restoring him to the antiseptic world of normalcy. And it is more than just "professional menopause" from which Dysart suffers. Behind Alan's pain he sees a passion that is absent from his own life. The choice facing Dysart is whether to leave Alan in his own vivid albeit torturing world, or to send him on his way into a society bleached of real emotions...