Echols devotes one of her most vivid chapters to "Saturday Night Fever," the 1977 blockbuster about a Brooklyn paint salesman (played by Travolta) who rules the dance floor on weekends.
She went on to add a dozen vivid chapters to a life in which she had already been the wife of a French count, a model-slash-vendeuse at Schiaparelli and a notorious man-slayer (her prey numbered Louis Malle, Max Ernst, John Paul Getty III and the painter Bernard Pfriem) as well as a designer for Paquin, Fath and Chloé.
He also wrote a life of Shepard in 1979, to which Penelope contributed a vivid chapter.
Mr. Burke, Otis Zachary, 83, and Richard O. Hogg, 80, toured Sommocolonia on Friday, their first visit to the battle zone in almost 56 years, seeking to close the most vivid chapter of their lives.
The result is a wonderfully vivid musical accounting Chapters of My Life his debut cd on Atlanta's Bantu records.
The suburbs of the 1970s are a vivid presence in the opening chapters of your book.
Nevertheless, the book is worth, oh, well, its weight in gold for several chapters that are vivid and eloquent.
But the best chapters recount in vivid detail the full depths of the corruption that pervaded the system in its last two decades of power.
Orhan Pamuk, Turkey's Nobel laureate, made use of them in his monumental My Name is Red, where meddahs (storytellers) come together, telling vivid stories which make up chapters of the novel.
Mr McCullough was fortunate enough to discover Washburne's own diary of the period, basing two of his best chapters on its vivid entries.Mr McCullough stops his story at the start of the 20th century, even though the American fascination for Paris continues.
Its chapters are a vivid catalog of all the things that can go wrong in giving birth to and then bring up a child, and also raise difficult ethical questions: whether it's proper to give cochlear implants to deaf children or to subject dwarfs to painful limb-lengthening surgery, for example.
