Word: vividness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...directors and designers with a knack for knocking the rust off tired masterpieces. Add to this the special pleasure of watching opera in a theater small enough that you can see Rigoletto's eyebrow twitch from the back row of the balcony, and you get productions so bold and vivid that they make you remember why you fell in love with opera in the first place...
...Depression years of 1933 to 1938, from F.D.R.'s first Inauguration to the eve of World War II. Cook manages a strange optical illusion of history: the men, including F.D.R., sometimes recede to the muzzy margins--the masculine world being crude and obtuse and brutal--while the busy, vivid termagants of Eleanor's circle go about trying to do good and save the world...
...range that more prolific filmmakers might--and often did--envy. But whether the films were set in the deep past or the near future, whether their prevailing tone was comic or violent, sly or brutish, weary or idealistic, Kubrick really made the same movie over and over again--vivid, brilliant, emotionally unforgiving, imagistically unforgettable variations on the theme that preoccupied him all his mature life...
Hence the eerie popular appeal of Dr. Hannibal Lecter, a.k.a. Hannibal the Cannibal, who made his first, cameo appearance in Thomas Harris' vivid thriller Red Dragon (1981) and then assumed a more sustained role in the author's The Silence of the Lambs (1988). Anthony Hopkins' 1991 Oscar-winning portrayal of Dr. Lecter in the film adaptation of Silence gave the fictional character an iconic image: cold blue eyes in a face tightly restrained by a muzzle designed to prevent impulsive nipping of nearby humans...
...time there gave me insight into how vivid everybody's story is," he says. "Sometimes we forget the different kinds of things that can lead people to a point in life. We judge just based on what we observe...