Word: vividness
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...editors do seem to understand the difference between the vivid humor present in such comics as "Life in Hell" and "Zippy" and the vapid four-panel daily strips that dominate the commercial comics business. But the editors' efforts would have been more informative if they had provided a greater context in which the non-junkie might understand current comics...
...create her own characters. Rhett Butler and Scarlett O'Hara sprang from everything Mitchell knew and felt about a time that was still fresh in her region's memory. Ripley's self-imposed handicap shows in the dialogue. Mitchell gave her sardonic hero the best lines, hard- bitten and vivid in the Raymond Chandler style. "I've seen eyes like yours above a dueling pistol," he says to Scarlett. "They evoke no ardor in the male breast." Ripley's Rhett is frequently wordy and inelegant: "You're dead weight -- unlettered, uncivilized, Catholic, and an exile from everything decent in Atlanta...
...woman must have money and a room of one's own if she is to write fiction." It is around this ungrammatical but vivid observation that A Room of One's Own, an adaptation of Virginia Woolf's book of the same name, is based. This play is a witty, thoughtful but often tedious reworking of the book...
Perhaps the most memorable part of the play shows Woolf relating a vivid fantasy about an fictitious sister of William Shakespeare. The sister had the same imagination, the same verve, and the same genius as her brother. Lacking his gender, however, she was doomed to failure. This, more than any other scene, demonstrates the difficulty which women writers have in achieving recognition...
Hardy hostages have a vivid imagination, which helps them withstand the tedium of confinement and restores some sense of control over their lives. Such prisoners invent new games or languages, retrace a journey, or set aside a specific time of the day for positive fantasizing. Psychiatrist Frank Ochberg, a clinical professor at Michigan State University, recalls two men who were kidnapped by terrorists for nearly 19 weeks: "The one who came out in excellent condition had designed buildings in his head and planned exotic menus at various restaurants. His cellmate, who lacked that ability, was in much worse shape...