Word: vividness
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Died. A. E. (for Alfred Edgar) Coppard, 79, who gave up clerking at 41 to concentrate on writing, became known as the author of vivid, atmospheric short stories (The Higgler, Adam and Eve .and Pinch Me); of a stroke; in London. Novelist Ford Madox Ford's evaluation: "Almost the first English prose writer to get into English prose the peculiar quality of English lyric poetry...
...Once so vivid in many cities
...actors moving nimbly along. Actor Lancaster does a businesslike job as the rainmaker. Prud'Homme and Holliman are excellent as the father and the younger brother. Actress Hepburn does not always surely suggest the stages in Lizzie's life, as she passes from emotional chrysalis to vivid imaginal maturity, but she holds the eye in scene after scene like a brilliant moth as she batters wildly about one or another light o' love. Most welcome in her performance is the restraint put on the all-too-well-known Hepburn mannerisms-apparently by Director Anthony...
...good part in Viva Zapata!, and he won an Oscar as the year's best supporting actor. In 1954, while on a visit to Italy, Quinn made a memorable meatball of the carnival strongman in Federico Fellini's La Strada, and last year he produced a vivid portrait of a genius as Painter Paul Gauguin in Lust for Life. The critics raved, and everybody seemed to agree that nothing was too good for Actor Quinn. Nevertheless, in his two latest pictures, just about the most significant thing his employers have permitted him to create is a three days...
...spots a discarded sewing machine, old drainpipe, truck fender or pile of angle irons these days knows just where to take it; to the cold-water flat of Sculptor-Welder Richard Stankiewicz, 34, who with little more than an acetylene torch, a welder's tools and his own vivid imagination turns junk into sculpture. Says he: "I take material that is already degenerating, flaking and rusting and then try to make something beautiful out of it. It should hit people over the head and make them ask, 'What is beauty...