Word: vividness
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Fortunately, Anna does put a few new twists in the story of bad girl turned nun. With the Italian brand of striking realism, the tensions of an operating room are exceptionally vivid. And Anna's song and dance in a disreputable night club is as sultry as any I have seen...
...coating. A far more striking blending of Indian and international is Architect-Muralist Juan O'Gorman's magnificent windowless library (see opposite page). O'Gorman, son of an Irish father and Mexican mother, has decorated the four sides of his tower with vast and vivid mosaics pairing heraldic symbols of Mexico's Mediterranean and Middle American pasts, the feathered serpent of Quetzalcoatl and the cross of Cort...
...together. Claude Lorrain's Sermon on the Mount created a hilltop grove, shepherds and their flock, a wide and crowded harbor and a distant town, all with a little ink and broad watery washes. Peter Paul Rubens' delicately tinted watercolor of a farmyard was as tender and vivid as April grass. Thomas Gainsborough's charcoal sketches showed that he could read the face of a field as surely as a human expression...
...methods. But what might have been a brilliantly sardonic social satire has first been squeezed inside a domestic framework and then dropped from the picture itself. Though the family story has its own realistic interest, it is never made real. Mixing and garnishing his moods at will, Tabori achieved vivid scenes but an unfocused play. The production and acting are uneven also, though in his best scenes Actor Cobb is brilliant...
...Shelley, Yeo-Thomas committed a series of exploits that have made him a legend in his own lifetime, a classic case of heroism under the rose. In The White Rabbit, the case is related by British Novelist Bruce (Father Malachy's Miracle) Marshall in the sharp, quick, vivid style of a battle report...