Word: vividness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...faded into the great jigsaw of constantly reassorting viruses. Until lately, the epidemic had almost disappeared from our collective memory as well, prompting Crosby to title his history The Forgotten Epidemic. Among flu experts, however, its mysteries are still current and utterly significant. It has always stood as a vivid warning of what the next pandemic could be like. What made the virus so lethal? Why was it able to kill so quickly? And where in nature did it originate...
Perhaps the imposing stature of Widener library would foster more vivid memories of a just-completed tour. According to Ms. Sojehn, "Mr. Widener was a swimmer for Harvard and was killed on the Titanic." This of course made her wonder about the strength of the swimming program here at Harvard...
Before the Sunday sun lights the horizon, a handful of chosen men will enter the holiest sanctuary to hear Mass from priests hidden behind a wall of vivid icons. The rest are content just to be among people who believe as they believe. Soon, they say, the Patriarch will appear with the Ark to pronounce his blessing. Calmly, serenely, the pilgrims wait. By noon, the Patriarch has come and gone in a brisk flourish of gilded robes. There is no Ark, and the blessing is delivered swiftly amid a crush of baton-swinging soldiers and security guards. But the pilgrims...
...things that blow up in the night--can there be another way to make movies? Yes, in this lyrical fable of a woman who literally lives in the weave of a carpet while she awaits her lost love. Iran's Mohsen Makhmalbaf is a weaver too, of sweet dreams, vivid colors and magical filmmaking...
...Humphreys once wrote, "of the noblest Buddhist principles and debased sorcery." Its core, as with all Buddhism, is a belief in suffering and emptiness, and the need for compassion in the face of those. But unlike the stripped-down austerities of Zen, say, Tibetan Buddhism swarms with animist spirits, vivid symbolic depictions of copulating bodies, and Tantric practices of magic and sexuality that, taken out of context or practiced without the right training, are inflammable...