Word: vividness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...evidence that might indict Bill or Hillary Clinton will be disappointed. But Stewart does succeed in painting a portrait of how the President's men and their critics have repeatedly shaded, covered up and manipulated the truth to further their various political ends. It adds up to a vivid profile of America's political culture. Though the saga is not pretty, it has at least one redeeming quality. Slowly but surely, Stewart points out, the truth has emerged. "I hope eventually people will come to realize the futility of dissembling," he says...
There were no pictures of aborted fetuses hacked to pieces and floating in a sea of blood. The most vivid photo was a color ultrasound of a 16-week-old child resting in her mother's womb. Her eyes, nose, mouth and hands were perfectly formed. She was sucking her thumb in innocent comfort...
Anne is a vivid presence here, a child whose reckless brio offended some of the town's proper Jews. But we also get a fine image of the doting Otto, who underestimated Hitler's genocidal itch. He was not the only Jew to do so. A family friend, Hanneli Goslar, recalls that as late as 1940, her father would dress up as the Fuhrer and ring the Franks' doorbell for a shock and a giggle; he later died in the Bergen-Belsen death camp. Goslar and a dozen others weave the tapestry of their lives and Anne's, from...
...terrific nose for a story. One of the biggest in New York circa 1909 was illicit prizefighting, and Bellows made intensely vivid and memorable images of it. Ashcan painting, in its description of the Darwinian world of fists evoked by American realist writers like Frank Norris and Jack London, lagged behind literature by 10 years or more, but its attachment to images of clash and struggle aligned it squarely with the American cultural ideology of the day--Theodore Roosevelt's praise of the strenuous life...
Wigand also remembers vivid scenes of his employers' covering their tracks in anticipation of the very lawsuits they are now battling. He alleges, for instance, that, with Sandefur's approval, a company lawyer deleted 12 pages from the minutes of a meeting attended by Wigand and other top scientists from B&W's affiliates in which there was discussion of developing a "safer cigarette...