Word: vividness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...eight had the vibrations of earthquake about it. America shuddered. History cracked open: bats came flapping out, dark surprises. American culture and politics ventured into dangerous and experimental regions: uplands of new enlightenments, some people thought, and quagmires of the id. The year was pivotal and messy. It produced vivid theater. It reverberates still in the American mind...
...that the pastoral mode is on its last legs today, weakened by irony and excess self-consciousness; although a vivid little tablet of color by Howard Hodgkin, In the Public Garden, Naples, 1981-82, argues that it can still be used without a false note. But this show leaves no doubt about how much it mattered to earlier generations of artists or how enduringly grounded in man's desire for consolation it proved...
...this worth such an indulgence of our wealth? Virtually no one argues -- not the tourists, not Congress and certainly not the Reagans. They have probably done more than any other First Couple to make the house reflect America's heritage, from Charles Russell's vivid Western scenes to the Gilbert Stuart portrait of Washington, the first painting put in the new White House in 1800 and the only one saved when the British burned the place...
American regional cooking remains well represented on the nation's bookshelves. But now, as palates tire of the green chili, blue cornmeal and black beans of the Southwest, attention is turning to the vivid and ethnically mixed cuisine of the Pacific Northwest -- with its salmon and oysters, wild berries and herbs, tree fruits and game. The best culinary guide to the region is Northwest Bounty by Schuyler Ingle and Sharon Kramis (Simon & Schuster; $18.95). The enticing recipes should inspire Americans across the country to try piquant specialties like pickled Walla Walla sweet onions and such cross- cultural inventions as Sichuan...
...Jeffrey DeMunn) is genial enough -- a mildly successful photographer who deflects his son's attempts to romanticize him -- although his affability fades into meanspirited vehemence at the least challenge to macho authority. The exceptional person in this triangle, and the reason Weller's play can arouse memories just as vivid for onlookers as for him, is the mother Elise, played by Kate Nelligan...