Word: vividness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Unfortunately for the astronauts, NASA is headed by a devilish schemer (Hal Holbrook) who decides to fake the Mars landing in a TV studio rather than risk failure and a cutoff of appropriations. Predictably, the mad scientist's plans go wrong, wrong, wrong. Capricorn One turns into a vivid chase involving NASA henchmen, an investigative reporter (Elliott Gould), a crop-dusting pilot (Telly Savalas) and a couple of bloodsucking desert reptiles...
...Countess Greffulhe, one of the models for the Duchess de Guermantes. All that remained of her remarkable beauty was exquisite bones and unique-colored eyes, which her cousin, the famous Count de Montesquiou, had compared to "black fireflies." Her memory was still young, however, and Proust was as vivid in mind as the day he walked into her salon. "I didn't like him," she recalled. "His sticky flattery was not to my taste. There was something I found unattractive about him ... But, of course, I never saw him after he turned out to be a genius." - GeraldClarke
Throughout this long, vivid saga, Novelist Carroll thoroughly exploits the Ragtime device-an interplay of historical figures with fictional characters. The portraits of the authentic personae are intriguing, but the question recurs: Are they real? Bobby Kennedy blackmails Brady's son into planting a bug in Anselmo's office. Young Brady protests that "it's not legal." Replies the Attorney General...
...Maude's lens included D.H. Lawrence, Eugene O'Neill, Ezra Pound, Raymond Chandler and Robert Frost, "the biggest son of a bitch I was ever to photograph." E.E. Cummings, T.S. Eliot and Thomas Mann get flattering portraits; and a dinner with Graham Greene is recalled in vivid detail and charming conversation...
Both Westerners in Shaba and the province's citizens have vivid, unpleasant memories of the last incursion. Says one European professional who befriended the tigers while living under their 1977 occupation: "They said this would be another Viet Nam. They told us frankly they were not secessionists but an army of liberation whose aim was to take over the whole of Zaïre. All of us were told that if we were still here when they returned, it would be the end of us. We would then be considered pro-Mobutu. Last year when the guerrillas came...