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Word: vivid (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Says Ohio Senator Howard Metzenbaum: "It's time to mandate a little human decency." But many companies already give notice voluntarily or shut down a plant in stages. The AFL-CIO, which depends on the Labor Department for information, has trouble proving its case through either hard numbers or vivid anecdotes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Send Them a Message | 5/2/1988 | See Source »

...will agree on what they are enjoying. Ballard is a master of hard- edged hallucinations, of improbable scenes so vivid that they enter the subconscious without checking in first at the front desk of reason. Reading him seems like dreaming, and interpretations of meaning tend to be resented as invasions of privacy. So it is here. There is an old-fashioned adventure tale going on, along with a peculiar love story, a mythic quest, a laborious fertility rite and a perilous journey of psychological discovery. And that is only for openers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Tale of Time and the River THE DAY OF CREATION | 4/25/1988 | See Source »

Indeed, Ballard's vivid, eventful youth accounts for much of the eerie power of his books. He has never considered himself a writer of science fiction but rather an explorer of "inner space." Surface reality interests him chiefly as a starting point for the mind: "I believe in the power of the imagination to remake the world." That power needs to be pitted against Shepperton and its calm environs: "The wave of the future breaks here in the suburbs. This and all places like it are becoming a geography of concrete and credit cards. My fear is that the exercise...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Tale of Time and the River THE DAY OF CREATION | 4/25/1988 | See Source »

With the mythic, vivid The Day of Creation, J. G. Ballard confirms his transformation from sci- fi cult figure to mainstream novelist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Magazine Contents Page | 4/25/1988 | See Source »

What--any professor might ask if Kilson's letter were a student's paper--does this cryptic sentence mean? Calling neo-racism a twisted-neurotic virus, while vivid, leaves the term undefined. Its essential difference from old-racism evidently has to do with those who propound it, namely "white-ethnic newcomers to the middle class." Could the reference be to Jews (like Joseph) and Catholics (like...

Author: By Michael D. Nolan, | Title: Policing the Academy | 4/20/1988 | See Source »

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