Word: vividness
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Jean Lunn brought a clear, wide-ranged voice to the role of the soprano. Her vivid facial expressions and fine sense of timing made her performance thoroughly upstanding, even when she wasn't standing...
...Juggler. Kirk Douglas as a D.P. in flight from the law and himself in a vivid chase story set in Israel (TIME...
...main guide was a faithful copy of the Last Supper painted by a follower named Andrea Solario in 1520, only 22 years after Leonardo had finished the mural. Solario's copy was destroyed during World War II, but Pelliccioli has a photograph of it and a vivid memory. First he took minute samplings of the surface where past restorers had painted on overlapping layers, then painstakingly scraped down to the original, finally swabbed over Leonardo's faded paint with a clear shellac fixative...
...screenplay, Michael Blankfort has wisely lopped away some of the over-melodramatic incidents of his 1952 novel to create a convincing chase story with vivid topographical and psychological landscapes. Kirk Douglas in the title role makes an affecting individual of the D.P. in flight from the law and himself. He is alternately cocky and wisecracking, lonely and obsessed by fears. As Yael, the sabra (native-born Israeli) girl who comes to love the juggler and helps set him on the road to recovery, Italian Actress Milly Vitale is a plumply pretty figure dressed in shorts and lugging a rifle...
...ladder-like legs, the monster crouches beneath the planetarium's high-arched dome. When the house lights dim in the circular planetarium room, the monster's bright eyes show as points of light reflected from the curved steel ceiling. There, astonishingly real, stretches a boundless universe-a vivid replica of the starbright sky on a clear night...