Word: vividness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...quickly denied any such thing, but the damage was done. Details of his late-night soul-searching were too vivid to be fabricated or to be quickly forgotten. The Nikkei stock average suffered a 517-point drop in one afternoon, falling to 32,951 before partly recovering. "The market thinks Uno is finished," said a Tokyo stockbroker, "and that means more political trouble ahead...
...Despite the ferocity of the March flares, Moore warns, "this cycle is still in its early phase. It's got quite a way to go." Solar buffs are speculating it might approach the violence reached by the 1957-58 maximum, which touched off five disruptive geomagnetic superstorms and vivid auroral displays. Says astronomer Donald Neidig at the National Solar Observatory outpost on Sacramento Peak, near Sunspot, N. Mex.: "We can't rule out a record breaker...
When Roy Medvedev's momentous study of Stalinism, Let History Judge, was first published in the West in 1971, readers marveled. How could a Soviet citizen, laboring in Russia, have produced a work so rich in documentation, so scrupulous as scholarship and, above all, so harrowingly vivid in its recounting of the calamities inflicted by Stalin on his country? In the West there was nothing to rival it in scope. In the Soviet Union, where the book circulated among scholars, it restored a long-abandoned standard of professional integrity to Soviet historiography. As one Russian practitioner lamented, "Stalin beat...
...government's efforts to bury the shattered remains of the democracy movement and to provide a justification for the brutal military suppression near Tiananmen Square play far better outside the capital. There memories of the dunce caps, denunciations and deaths of the Cultural Revolution may be more vivid than the fuzzy reports of recent events in Beijing. Even in Shanghai, China's largest city and a hotbed of pro-democracy activity just two weeks ago, the spy-on-your-neighbor campaign is having the intended effect. Says a Shanghai cabdriver: "Bad elements took over the student movement. The army bravely...
...world has developed like a Polaroid photograph, a vivid, surreal awakening...