Word: vividness
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...China, and there could be another fight this fall over President Bush's recent promise to grant MFN to the Soviet Union. The very subject of the U.S.S.R. sends the American body politic into spasms of divisive debate. That eternally troubled, troublesome country is the oldest and most vivid example of how unsuccessful the U.S. has been at using tariffs as punitive or coercive instruments of diplomacy. In 1912 the Taft Administration revoked a commercial treaty with czarist Russia to protest the persecution of Jews. A few years later, the pogroms stopped, but not because of U.S. pressure: the Bolsheviks...
...many issues. The American social contract is fluid, rapidly changing, postmodernist, just as the American gene and culture pool is turbulently new every day. Life improvises rich dilemmas, but they fly by like commercial breaks, hallucinatory, riveting, half-noticed. What is the moral authority behind a social contract so vivid and illegible? Only the zealously asserted styles of the new tribes (do this, don't do this, look a certain way, think a certain way, and that will make you all right...
There are a few disgruntled people around: the press. "Damn!" bellows a photographer. "The old pink again. I'm not staying here." The press is as much a part of the princess's life as her exercise regimen. The vivid dress that seems an inspired choice for a nasty day has in fact been photographed many times over at least two years. Has she forgotten how to play this game...
Today Bilbeisi's relationship with the shadowy $30 billion bank is no longer a source of pride but a vivid page from a worldwide scandal that began with B.C.C.I.'s indictment in 1988 for money laundering. Investigators now view B.C.C.I. as the largest criminal corporate enterprise in modern history, a secret banking network that served drug smugglers, tax evaders, arms dealers and rapacious tyrants, including Panama's Manuel Noriega. Four grand juries are probing the bank, while investigators from the New York district attorney's office, Congress and the Department of Justice are grappling with mountains of seized records. Most...
...times and the worst of times to the Soviet Union's avant-garde artists. While giving them new freedoms and access to lucrative Western markets, it has destroyed the sense of community that nurtured their artistic vision and shaped their values. Solomon shares their triumphs and disappointments in this vivid, poignant and often hilarious narrative...