Word: vividness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Documentary film is vivid, emotional and personal. "Days of Rage" is no doubt going to move people; films have that tendency. But to claim that any controversial piece of expressive work is propaganda and, therefore, censorable is simply wrong...
...with her first album in eight years, whose title, Something Real, is a cool bit of understatement. The record is so real -- so immediate -- that the feelings described in its ten songs become almost palpable. The rhythms swing easy and rock on request, but the tunes have lyrics so vivid that each becomes an epigram from a broken heart...
...Seaton of Lowell House has a vivid memory. Even though he finished the race in 3:35, Seaton remembers the race down those hills. And the crowd. Especially the crowd...
Clearing away the Hollywood legends, Simon Schama's Citizens is both dramatic and thought provoking. -- Two vivid views of the U.S.'s tangled, bloody involvement with the Philippines...
This reassembling and rearranging of historical detail is brilliantly successful: Schama's tale is vivid, dramatic, thought-provoking. Yet such is the current academic vogue for bloodless and pseudoscientific historiography that the author repeatedly feels a need to apologize for what he somewhat disingenuously calls a "mischievously old-fashioned piece of storytelling." If Schama's portrait of the revolution is often surprising in its closeup details, however, it is no less so in coloring the background imagery of the French society being overturned...