Hell's fires meant that it could never be convincingly dark, though it was meant to be, made vivid only by screams and by the stink of decay.
Grabbing hold of their destinies, these Indians became the unlikely cousins of my own immigrant parents in America: restless, ambitious, with dreams vivid only to themselves.
We toured perhaps seven other campuses on our trip, but I have vivid recollections only of Marietta and of The Citadel.
That the hazy camerawork isn't terribly vivid can only be considered a blessing.
This dispiriting news spread along Broadway, and helped to establish Porter's reputation for elusiveness — a vivid one, only recently dimmed by the war in Europe, which now considerably limits his wanderings.
As ever, Barnes excels at colouring everyday reality with his narrator's unique subjectivity, without sacrificing any of its vivid precision: only he could invest a discussion about hand-cut chips in a gastropub with so much wry poignancy.
Yet we are given these vivid details only on the last page of Ruth Fine's studious text in THE ART OF ROMARE BEARDEN (National Gallery of Art/Abrams, $50), which, disappointingly, does not make the man leap off the page as palpably as his images -- pieced together with the sensibility of jazz or quilting from photocopies, sandpaper, fabric, foil and his own paintings.
This tense mystery is remarkable for its vivid recreation not only of a cruel and dangerous time, but also of the characters who inhabit it.
In fact, it seems to be a prime goal of the foundation to put its charges, from 14 to 20 years old, in vivid touch not only with music-making at the highest level but also with the nation's recent history, good and bad; last year the orchestra performed Verdi's Requiem at Theresienstadt, the former concentration camp in the Czech Republic.
This can be done through brief and vivid messages, not only as part of the World Soil Day celebrations but also as a sustained long-term outreach and engagement programme.
If they ever needed a house band for the Bada Bing in The Sopranos, the Criminals would be there, chanting: "Free John Gotti!" As they ripped through a monstrously entertaining selection of past favourites and new songs, it was a vivid reminder not only of what a great dance band they are, but also how successfully they have overhauled the traditional notion of the "rock band".
