The vivid boy, she whispered.
His autobiography, I Could Be Happy (1975), ends with a vivid account of The Boy Friend in London and New York, and a hurt appraisal of Russell's movie (although he retained great sympathy for Twiggy, whom he liked).
After three chapters, he had a vivid idea of a boy seeing a man's beheading and finding direwolves in the snow, which would eventually become the first non-prologue chapter of A Game of Thrones.
As a boy with a vivid Hollywood imagination, he embraced Orthodox Judaism at 12 after seeing the movie "Fiddler on the Roof".
F*ggot: A little queer boy creates a vivid fantasy life to cope with schoolyard bullying as he discovers the tragic reality of his uncle struggling with HIV in 1990s Mexico.
It has a vivid central anecdote -- the confused boy writes to a psychiatrist, picked out of the phone book, pleading for treatment -- and the performance, by David Greenspan, is an idiosyncratic one, well thought out both physically and verbally.
Since then "Sam and the Tigers," published by Dial Books, an imprint of Penguin Putnam, has sold more than 100,000 copies, with a vivid cover of a dapper little boy in a red coat and purple knickers that is clearly Mr. Pinkney's grandson.
In government, he relished a bad-boy reputation, striking a vivid figure in his purple scarf, thin mustache and cigarette and appearing on occasion with his glamorous wife, both wearing matching black flight suits.
Since I was born on the Fourth of July, a boy of 10 with a vivid imagination is going to make much of this connection.
Small wonder that he enjoyed stories of a mischievous wee boy off on big adventures inspired by a vivid imagination.
