Word: vividness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Appropriate because Francie never fully realizes how this imagery has eased him across the line separating delinquency from criminality. The scariest thing about this difficult, duplicitous movie is the invincibility of Francie's ignorance on this point and the vivid gloss this offers on our unending concern about the power of crud culture to bend vulnerable minds to its heedless will...
Brown's "Fax" was truly distinguished, if gooey, nonsense: the present, exciting and vivid, is more real than anything else, if only we, like Clinton, have the nerve to embrace it. This is the sort of thinking that got Emma Bovary into trouble. But the thought is also a kind of bull's-eye. Brown hit exactly upon Clinton's secret: he is the world-historical genius of the present tense...
...himself clearly with the unique and melodious tone of the clarinet. Sixteenth-note runs effortlessly double-tongued in this Allegro, Russell had complete control over his instrument, fingers moving rapidly yet delicately on the keys. Sixteenth run after sixteenth run, Russell set up the orchestra for a colorful and vivid interlude as he quickly tried to get rid of water stuck...
...York Post. Speaking to the paper, the publisher cited the movies "Wag the Dog" and "Primary Colors" as having heightened the public's awareness of how cool the Washington arena can be. "All of a sudden," Kennedy told the Post, "the connection between politics and pop culture became vivid...
...Coen brothers have always been great at portraying unique, vivid worlds of their own creation. Just look at the bleak, twisted landscape of Fargo or the surreal corporate America of the underrated Hudsucker Proxy...