Word: vividness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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These are things, true things all, that we try to impress on our children, and ourselves, as we struggle to come to terms with the slaughter in Colorado and the vivid gash it has left in our psyche. We know that the Internet couldn't possibly be the source of the demons that drove the two killers. We want our kids to use the Net; we know that this technological wonder, every bit as revolutionary as the light bulb or the telephone, is going to shape all our lives in the century ahead...
...family is adopted by Rai's parents, the Merchants. Soon, Vina meets Ormus Cama, the son of the Merchants' good friends; the three begin an epic love triangle that will continue for 30 years until Vina is swallowed up in an earthquake. Unfortunately, Rushdie abandons his most vivid characters, leaving behind Ormus' alcoholic Anglophile father and murderous brother, as well as Rai's gambling father and business-minded mother as the threesome for-sake their old world and are lured to America by the newborn rock-and-roll explosion...
...Though they were described in deliberately understated tones, the stories of pain and frustration that many of the students at the meeting recounted were vivid. To suggest that they were in any way fabricated would be patently unfair. But it seems equally unfair to remove all agency from them, to, in Prof. Harrington s words, "make objects instead of subjects out of human beings." RSI sufferers are not hypochondriacs, but neither are they simply machines that have been improperly aligned. Somewhere along the continuum between the two opposing images of the machine and the malingerer is the delicate and distinct...
Take Back the Night's vivid descriptions of domestic violence against women were also troublesome. Instead of simply reading the names of victims to demonstrate the abundance of domestic violence, the readers elaborated with vivid descriptions of violence and abuse. Stories of machetes and beatings made the readings more of an exhibition than an effort to promote student awareness...
...London, where the cacophony of Brit-style American accents was a bit distracting. Tim Pigott-Smith, as the disillusioned anarchist Larry, is an indispensable holdover, while Tony Danza as the bartender, Michael Emerson as a soused former law student and Robert Sean Leonard as a tormented turncoat are vivid additions. All in all, a potentially grueling evening becomes a breathtaking theater experience...