They also brought lively and often controversial televised debates into millions of homes, coffee shops and offices.
While not playing down the cruelty to Isabel and Ruth, two young slaves in a loyalist New York household, "Chains" brings lively interest to the business of daily life as Washington's army rises.
The comic scenes are played in a mostly subdued manner, although Andy Grotelueschen makes the most of his moments as Bardolph, and Mr. Sturdivant brings lively invention to Fluellen through the rhythms and intonations of his speeches.
He was 94. "Meltzer was one of the first in a new wave of nonfiction writers who brought lively and passionate writing, grounded in original source material, to middle-grade students and young adults, without talking down to them," Lisa Von Drasek, the children's librarian at the Bank Street College of Education in New York and an expert in the field, said in an interview on Wednesday.
The theme of a workaholic parent (usually a father) learning what is really important in life was exhausted long ago, but Mr. Benson and Matt Williams, the director, bring some lively touches to it.
Facebook had instead put the emphasis on video, which also bring a lively quality to the News Feed.
Mystikal is back and used his aggressive rap-yelling to bring a lively James Brown-esque vibe to the "SNL" stage for "Feel Right".
Strict Social Darwinism, at its worst, serves to justify the enslavement of the gentlest, most vulnerable and caring among us; those who sense that life is a kind of sharing which can lead to open-hearted happiness; that back and forth and give and take bring a lively see saw effect into the way society can function, and happiness to the majority of our planet's inhabitants.
Mr. Martins doesn't rise to the music's big melodies with any sustained dance idea, and he doesn't bring its liveliest rhythms to life with any eye-catching metric complexity.
Animation bigwig Brad Bird, a longtime "Simpsons" and "Pixar" honcho and director of "Ratatouille," and "The Incredibles," brought his lively imagination to "Mission: Impossible IV - Ghost Protocol," for his first live-action film directorial effort.
