Word: vividness
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...their furtive methods were necessary to get urgent aid to the children, who they claimed were orphans from nearby Darfur. But investigators soon found that most of the children were in stable condition - and that virtually all of them were Chadian nationals with at least one living parent. Amidst vivid public anger in Chad, French President Nicolas Sarkozy flew to N'Djamena in November to secure the release of seven Europeans detained as accomplices in the case and vowed to eventually bring the remainder home "no matter what they may have done...
...the trove of letters that had been discovered in a Dumpster near his home, historian Allan Berube knew he would write a book. The missives, written by gay GIs who had met at an Army base in Missouri and stayed in touch throughout World War II, told vivid stories of love, friendly nightspots and the difficulties of being gay in the military. The resulting 1990 book, Coming Out Under Fire, won Berube a MacArthur award, inspired a Peabody-winning documentary and is widely considered the definitive piece of scholarship on the subject. He was 61 and died of complications from...
...Tram herself became a national hero, with hundreds of people visiting her grave site and a hospital named after her. For the younger generation of Vietnamese (nearly 60% of the population was born after the war's end in 1975), Tram's ardent accounts of bloody conflict offer a vivid connection to a time their parents find difficult to speak about. Now translated into English as Last Night I Dreamed of Peace, the diaries provide international readers with a Vietnamese perspective of the "American War," as it was known to Tram and her compatriots - a catastrophe that killed 3 million...
...Reminiscent of both Lil Mama’s “Lip Gloss” and the salon scenes from “Legally Blonde,” Kid Sister’s first single, “Pro Nails,” provides viewers a lens into the vivid world of manicures. The camera scans colorful walls of bottles filled with nail polish, catching glints of sparkling salmons and auburns. Unknown to most, Kid Sister hails from Chicago and spits her club rhymes for independent label Fool’s Gold. For the video, fellow Chi-town native Kanye...
...work”: The quest to find the origin of language and human consciousness. But he is bogged down by the Nazis, who take a keen interest in his situation and his loneliness. Coppola starts with a number of promising elements. Stylistically, he keeps the film interesting by incorporating vivid scenery—from a gory hospital visit to a whimsical trip to India—with novel approaches to dream sequences, where the shots begin upside-down. Tim Roth offers an impressive portrayal of Dominic as he appears at 70 and at 35. Roth salvages the boring intellectual banter...