Word: lucidly
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...Civil War (PBS). Even if it hadn't inspired a national craze, filmmaker Ken Burns' 11-plus-hour documentary series would rank as one of the medium's towering achievements -- a lucid, comprehensive and poignant narrative of the nation's great calamity...
...tunes (e.g., I Left My Heart in San Francisco). His third greatest talent, say some, is his unique taste in clothes, which runs to purple ties and gold blazers. But the first thing we all know about George is that he is one of the most prolific and lucid writers ever to grace our pages...
AFTER THE WARMING (PBS, Nov. 21, 8 p.m. on most stations). Environmental documentaries continue to pour forth like acid rain. This one is sparked by a lucid, witty host, James Burke (Connections), who "looks back" from the year 2050 to see what disasters global warming has wrought...
...battlefield tactics; the lives of common soldiers along with great generals. There are segments on food and drink at the front lines, the participation of blacks in the Union Army, the role of women and the use of spies. The series has a special knack for resonant details and lucid generalizations. The unprecedented number of casualties, explains Foote, was due to the fact that war's technology had outstripped tactics: bayonet charges were outmoded, but few generals realized it. After its conquest by the Union Army on the Fourth of July in 1863, the city of Vicksburg, Miss...
...world. They are, after all, products of the same sensibility. The rhythms of his editing and his staging are serene -- hypnotically so. His is not to shock us into surrendering to his visions but to seduce our consent to them. And this he does in one of the most lucid dreamworks ever placed on film...