Word: ardor
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Moscow may be hoping that an economic cold shower will be enough to douse some of Lithuania's ardor. The Baltic state may produce more than enough food to feed its population of 3.7 million, but it depends almost entirely on the Soviet Union for oil, natural gas and raw materials, running up a yearly trade deficit with the union of $2.3 billion. Engineers at the Vilnius Furniture Factory, which buys 30% of its timber from other republics, say Moscow has already cut back on supplies and intends to increase timber prices one-third. Other Soviet enterprises may also decide...
Gorbachev has tried to dampen the ardor for repealing Article 6, claiming that giving up one-party rule would be a capitulation. But there were signs last week that the Kremlin was willing to fiddle with the text. Noting that Article 6 was "not a taboo subject," Politburo ideologist Vadim Medvedev said the present wording should not be kept "at all cost" and ought to be "brought into line with the party's new role in society...
Every Monday night, before packed houses, Woody Allen plays jazz clarinet with the same ardor and style that he puts into his films, but he's never been one to blow his own horn about...
...received. Mrs. Lovett is a singing, dancing and grimacing Mother Courage, sapped of moral scruple by economic privation and sheer will to survive. Beth Fowler and Bob Gunton sing nobly, and the production's intimacy includes a welcome emphasis on natural, unmiked sound. She enriches Lovett with a lifelong ardor for Sweeney and a pixilated fondness for romantic fancy. < He believably underscores the improvisatory quality of Sweeney's first murders, turning him from a monster into a man who howls piteously over the body of his beloved wife, lost and too late found. As corpses pile up in the apocalyptic...
...Yale undergraduate, George Bush headed the local drive for the United Negro College Fund, a consortium that then represented 32 private black schools. Last week, as Bush delivered the keynote speech at the fund's 45th- anniversary dinner in Manhattan, and it was clear his ardor had not waned. "Then as now," said the President, "the U.N.C.F.") insists that excellence become a way of life...