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There are certain vivid characters who through their work and success writers, artists, filmmakers, even the occasional business type come to embody the city.
WSJ: A Part of the Zeitgeist
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He barely mentions a New Yorker series written towards the end of his life: long profiles of vivid characters he admired, such as Mel Brooks, Johnny Carson, Ralph Richardson and Tom Stoppard.
ECONOMIST: Kenneth Tynan
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The fashion for faceless chief executives is part of an understandable reaction against yesterday's imperial bosses, many of whom were vivid characters, capable of holding their own in a cocktail party with Tony Blair, but who collectively brought opprobrium on the system that let them shine.
ECONOMIST: Schumpeter
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Mantel knows what to select, how to make her scenes vivid, how to kindle her characters.
NEWYORKER: Invitation to a Beheading