Word: vividness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Weird Wonders Inside locked cabinets at the Smithsonian Institution nestle snapshots in stone as vivid as any photograph. There, engraved on slices of ink-black shale, are the myriad inhabitants of a vanished world, from plump Aysheaia prancing on caterpillar-like legs to crafty Ottoia, lurking in a burrow and extending its predatory proboscis. Excavated in the early 1900s from a geological formation in the Canadian Rockies known as the Burgess Shale, these relics of the earliest animals to appear on earth are now revered as priceless treasures. Yet for half a century after their discovery, the Burgess Shale fossils...
...students can grasp these fundamental principles then they can grasp the astounding intellectual advances that have been made in the field." Ptashne says. "My problem is to make that narrative vivid...
Thurber's pictures also possess a fascination with vivid colors and dramatic lighting, a trait that she shares with Philip-Lorca diCorcia. "Pl.," as his friends call him, combines the retirement of Armstrong with Thurber's sensitivity to the nuances of light and color...
There was more to the manifestation in Washington than Farrakhan. But what did it mean? Is there an articulable meaning in the numbers and energy? Was the Million Man March a Woodstock of black American manhood--a vivid but perishable spectacle? A protest without a program, the dictum has it, is mere sentimentality. Or was the march a turning point, a moment of moral lift-off, a Great Awakening? And would there be, down the road when nothing changes, another Great Disillusioning...
...with TV's pre-cable Bronze Age. A list of indispensable current series, besides those already mentioned, would include the mighty, acerbic Roseanne, still potent after seven-plus seasons; newer shows now hitting their stride, like Mad About You, The X-Files, Friends, NewsRadio and the wonderful Homicide, more vivid and biting than its more illustrious rival NYPD Blue. Among the season's new shows, American Gothic, Ned and Stacey and The Bonnie Hunt Show are all odd and worth watching before they get canceled...