Word: vividness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...gift for vivid images helped make his post-World War II epic The Tin Drum into an international classic, but most of his literary fans will be surprised to learn that the talent of German Author Gunter Grass, 56, is not Limited to the printed word. A major retrospective of Grass's visual art-80 etchings, 43 lithographs, 96 drawings and 27 sculptures-has been put together for the first time in Darmstadt. In addition to seeing the fish, snails and cooks that inhabit his earlier books, exhibition visitors who ponder his clay Tablets will get an advance glimpse...
...billion deficit projected for 1989 is so large, the candidate said, that a stack of $1 bills in that amount would reach halfway to the moon. The Federal Government, he went on, needs to borrow $500 million today just to get through tomorrow. The simple, vivid images were right out of Ronald Reagan's 1980 campaign repertoire, but now the speaker was Walter Mondale. All week long the Democrat pounded away at the budget deficits ("a trap door under our economy") and at the President's denial that tax increases are inevitable. And all week long the Reagan...
Perhaps. But this sporadically entertaining example reads more like an outline for a novel than a novel itself. Auchincloss may know better than any other practicing writer that rarefied world of old New York money, but he also knows less than many others how to write a vivid story. The trouble is that he tells enough about his subject to make it interesting, but not enough to make it the stuff of memory or dreams. -By Gerald Clarke
...mounted, untold billions of dollars left the colony; foreign consulates have been flooded with visa applications from jittery locals, businessmen in particular. The value of the Hong Kong dollar fell 40% last year, as did the price of choice properties. The Hang Seng stock market index, perhaps the most vivid thermometer of economic faith, has dipped by more than 30% in the past two years. With confidence somewhat buoyed by Howe's reassurances, it climbed 66.95 points, to 893.69 in a single day last week, its most bullish performance since the talks began in September...
...half years ago, the National Theater poached on Broadway turf with a vivid revival of Guys and Dolls that is still running in repertory. Less successful have been efforts by the company's director, Sir Peter Hall, to stage original, serious musical works. Last winter his collaboration with Composer Marvin Hamlisch on a dirge about Jean Seberg, in which the actress was seriously compared with Joan of Arc, fizzled at the stake. Now Sir Peter has devised an adaptation of George Orwell's Animal Farm. As in Jean Seberg, masks abound, with the actors simulating Orwell...