Word: vividness
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...present, memory and event, reality and hallucination. It's literary impressionism, splicing silent and often motionless pictures together into a frame containing only the essential, electric excerpts of life. These panels, the charged, memorable exposures of life in Franz Hall's mind, are rendered in 85 well-cropped and vivid chapters. Two whole adjoining chapters read as follows...
...rage. Crime combines fatally with inflation to subvert the old American hope, the idea that virtue, saving, obeying the law are rewarded, not punished. Psychologically intensifying the horrific reality of crime, the local TV news teams project it directly into the American fantasy life, the air filled with such vivid playlets of violence and death and fire and gore that children begin to grow up thinking that the world outside the front door is profoundly menacing-not the old America, not the nice America any more...
...Night: he makes charming sense of their idiosyncrasies in a story that combines amused tolerance for their odd ways with a tender regard for their idealism. The earlier film showed how a movie company on location seals itself off from the outside world and creates its own vivid reality. The Last Metro focuses on a theatrical company trying to operate in German-occupied Paris during World War II while surrounded by Gestapo agents, censors, black-marketeers-an external reality too insistently harsh to be so easily avoided...
...unfolding spectacle of human savagery, she sees some spectacular sights. She happens to be flying over in a small bubble of a spaceship when the planet suddenly tips over from its upright axis. Her description of this cataclysm, all grinding continents and sudden snow, is the most vivid part of her report...
Your discussion of David Lifton's "Two Casket" theory [Jan. 19] recalled some very vivid memories. In 1963 I was a pharmacologist at the Naval Medical Research Institute, a component of the National Naval Medical Center in Bethesda, Md. One of my collateral duties was to stand watch for the center. On Nov. 22, 1963, because of the unusual circumstances, I was recruited to serve with the duty officer...