Word: vividness
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Between moments of moralizing and philosophizing, narrated by Levy, the film's footage (much of it archival) presents vivid glimpses of the war. The awful clarity of these moments--as when a man, off-camera, screams to his father who attempts, unsuccessfully, to dodge the bullets of an unseen sniper--demands a response from the viewer...
...faces of those who endure the war as it unfolds and the video footage of sniper-attacks, dated 1993, force the plight of the Bosnians very close to the heart. Despite its tendency to whitewash the tangle of politics and history, "Bosna!" is a rare, vivid collection of images which speak with strength to universal human compassion...
...find the newly discovered cave paintings artistically far below those of Lascaux and much less vivid. Something is wrong. In my opinion they are false...
...dodge a blizzard. A picture arriving late from Los Angeles was grounded by snow in Chicago. It made it into the building at 7 p.m. Saturday, barely beating our final deadline. To do this week's painting of the O.J. Simpson trial, Smith chose Jon Ellis, whose vivid style lends itself to the circus motif-and who delivered on schedule...
...program, but it is a tool of awesome power, simulating a view of the heavens from any point on earth, at any time, past or present. Thompson's course has always been popular, but in recent years it has achieved an almost cultlike status at the school. Though a vivid lecturer and the co-author of what was for years the country's top-selling astronomy textbook, Thompson has traded the chalk-and-talk approach for a task-oriented mode of teaching, using Voyager. His students do not ``study'' astronomy; they become astronomers. From September through June, they complete...