Word: vividness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Eventually, a few acquaintances began to wonder about Maurice. It appeared odd, to say the least, that he could speak only halting French. And what about those vivid blue contact lenses? And where did he get that Southern accent? If he was in his mid-30s as he looked, what was he doing in school? Was this guy for real...
Almost from the day Apple Computer introduced its Macintosh line in 1984, aficionados clamored for a portable version of the popular machine. This week Apple will finally unveil one. The delay was caused by the difficulty of producing a lightweight Mac with a graphics display as vivid as the larger models'. To achieve that clarity, insiders say, the new machine has an active- matrix screen, in which each of its thousands of picture elements will be controlled by an individual transistor. Instead of Apple's famous mouse, the new Mac has a cursor-control device called a trackball mounted...
GOLENBOCK'S allegations will raise some eyebrows, but it is his vivid characterizations that make the book work. There's Kevin Drummond, the serious, hard-working junior-college transfer who can't understand why Valvano picks on him instead of Charles Shackleford, the lazy, pot-smoking center...
When the German delegation of 180 diplomats and technicians went to Versailles in 1919 to negotiate a peace treaty ending World War I, the French forced their train to creep along at 10 m.p.h. so that the Germans would get a vivid sense of the devastation their armies had wrought. In Versailles's Hall of Mirrors, Premier Georges Clemenceau had ominous words for them: "The hour has struck for the weighty settlement of our account...
Nazi Germany's invasion of Poland on Sept. 1, 1939, started a titanic struggle that ultimately killed about 50 million people and changed the world forever. Here is the story of how it all began, plus vivid reminiscences by such varied survivors as Poland's General Jaruzelski and West Germany's President Von Weizsacker and a profile of that architect of evil: Adolf Hitler...