Word: vividness
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Black Christianity preaches a gospel of deliverance, the reality of a vivid flesh-and-blood Jesus and the urgency of spiritual rebirth. In that sense, all seven denominations are akin to white Evangelicalism and Fundamentalism. But black belief also insists that social and economic liberation is part of that gospel. No less important than the message has been the messenger. Uniquely, the black church has been the haven for an entire community's most visionary leaders, from Nat Turner, leader of the 1831 slave rebellion, to Oliver Brown, who filed the lawsuit that abolished school desegregation, to former Atlanta mayor...
MEXICO: SPLENDORS OF THIRTY CENTURIES, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City. This monumental show bites off more than it -- or you -- can chew. But it makes you want to go to Mexico, to know this vast, vivid, fierce visual culture better. Through...
...ever compilation of Jones' polymorphous music, ranging from jazz to soul, pop to funk, performed by talents as various as Sarah Vaughan and James Ingram. The movie, the book and the CD, all produced and coordinated by Courtney Sale Ross, offer no definitive portrait. But they do provide a vivid personality sketch in bold -- and, in the film, often demanding and dazzling -- strokes of a man who's written and played fine music, produced films (The Color Purple) and records (Michael Jackson's Thriller) and generally become an immutable force of show-business nature. Sort of a David O. Selznick...
Mike hears voices inside his head and sees things that are not there. Frightening things, like snakes and abandoned babies. Sometimes, when the hallucinations become too vivid, Mike erupts in hostile words and angry gestures that frighten other people. Twenty-five years ago, Mike would probably have been locked away in a state mental hospital in some secluded locale. Today, however, he lives on a bench in Manhattan's Central Park...
HarperCollins gave Burrough his million partly to reward him for Barbarians at the Gate. Burrough and fellow Journal reporter John Helyar shared a $150,000 advance for that vivid saga of the $25 billion RJR-Nabisco takeover war. They wrote the 528-page book in just seven months. An instant hit, Barbarians has sold more than 300,000 copies so far and has been a fixture on best-seller lists for 38 weeks...