Word: vivid
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...rediscovered Don Quixote. My theory is that Cervantes was the first magical realist. But then the British stole both the Spanish colonies and the Spanish novel. After that, a lot of Latin American literature merely aped European models. But life and the landscape in South America were always more vivid than conventional fiction could convey. Once writers began breaking the rules, their subjects came alive...
...ploy continues to sell perfume, the smells may branch out even further. Imagine if advertisers, in their search for more vivid copy, began running scent strips, say, for Aqueduct Race Track. Or Magic Johnson's Converse ERX 400 high-tops, or Macanudo, the ultimate cigar. It would be enough to make some readers wish they had a cold...
...persecuted and begin hallucinating. Angela Thompson of Sacramento drowned her nine-month-old son in the bathtub after hearing the voice of God tell her the child was the devil. It has been five years since her son's death, but her recollection of her mental state is still vivid. "I thought if I killed the baby that my husband would raise him to life again in three days and that the world would know that my husband was Jesus Christ," she explains. "When he was dead, I thought his face was contorted like the devil...
...usual, TV seemed more fascinated by small, vivid, personal moments than by the big strategic picture: Reagan dozing during a speech, the First Lady trying to get reporters' attention away from Raisa Gorbachev at the Tretyakov Gallery, Gorbachev directing reporters at a press conference to change seats when they could not hear the translations. In the meantime, the networks filled out their nightly half-hours with interchangeable feature stories and ponderously superfluous analysis ("Well, I've been thinking about the cold war, Tom," began a John Chancellor commentary; snores followed...
...victim of mistaken identity. But the judges determined that he "held a central role in the Treblinka order and carried out his tasks with a great deal of enthusiasm." Originally a soldier in the Soviet army, Demjanjuk apparently became a guard after being captured by the Nazis. Vivid testimony came from eight Jews who survived the Treblinka horrors. Demjanjuk's lawyers argued that a survivor could not reliably remember events that occurred so long ago. Responded Presiding Judge Dov Levin: "How could one forget...