He is utterly relatable, optimistic and in a class by himself, and I have no doubt that the character he will create — and the vivid family characters surrounding him — will be both instantly recognizable and hilarious.
Y tu mamá también (2001; "And Your Mother Too"), which he also wrote, tracks the friendship between two teenage boys as they set out on a road trip with an attractive married woman and is simultaneously a vivid commentary on social class within Mexico.
If nothing else, the booming block-wide market, an urban cornucopia for the Baltimore working class, provided vivid evidence that daily life was going forward in the nation after all the writs and stays, chads and dimples of the electoral struggle.
Indeed, exactly because my students are perpetually staring at screens, I often use an old-school approach of engaging them in class with vivid stories and amusing anecdotes and open-ended discussion.
But the emotional and dramatic heart of the movie is the modest home where Cecil and his wife (Oprah Winfrey) quarrel, dance, drink and entertain, scenes which provide a rare and vivid picture of middle-class African-American life during a tumultuous period in history.
But the emotional and dramatic heart of the movie is the modest home where Cecil and his wife (Oprah Winfrey) quarrel, dance, drink and entertain, scenes that provide a rare and vivid picture of middle-class African-American life during a tumultuous period in history.
At school, Day-Lewis immediately bristled at being boxed into the classics ("One teacher was always trying to throw a cloak around me") but took refuge in the work of Barrie Keefe, a Thatcher-era playwright, who wrote vivid dispatches from working-class life.
Also, I think the imagery in the scenes where he beats up his creative-writing class is quite vivid.
PAGE A10 INDIAN WINS MAN BOOKER PRIZE Aravind Adiga, 33, won the 40th Man Booker prize for his debut novel, "The White Tiger," a vivid exploration of India's class struggle told through the story of a village boy who becomes the chauffeur to a rich man.
I have a vivid memory from a Bible class in the late 1980s in which we were learning the classic formulations, seen in this week's Torah portion, that if the Israelites obey God's laws, the rains will come in the right season and all will be well.
