Word: robustness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...acting of Anthony Quinn as Zorba remains the most persuasive part of this movie. His huge face seen often in close-up dominates the theatre. It pleads to you, it sings to you, it grimaces, laughs, it even belches at you until you are so wrapped up in the robust personality of Zorba that anything he says becomes immediately true...
...Modern Art opens a retrospective of 140 works this week and London's Tate Gallery prepares another exhibition for July, Giacometti seems less tormented than an observer of a disjointed, brisk and familiar world. It is a world that, for all its grotesque attenuation, testifies to a robust, humanistic vision. The pessimism of a previous era, which colored his art grey, may no longer apply...
Twenty years after her defeat in World War II, Japan is re-emerging as a decisive factor in the Asian balance of power. She has grown since the end of American occupation in 1952 from a destitute and demoralized suzerainty to a robust economic giant. Now ranking fourth in the world (after the U.S., the U.S.S.R. and West Germany) in industrial production, her economy expands 8% yearly, the fastest sustained growth in modern histroy. Riding the wave of this economic power, she has led efforts in recent months to mediate the dispute between Indonesia and Malaysia; and it is possible...
...Snookie's health also seems less robust than it was-though not as fragile as one of his recent radio speeches let on. "I have already reached an age at which one can no longer have personal ambition," Snookie sighed. "The exhaustion that cannot be relieved, since I am unable to submit myself completely to the advice of my doctors, condemns me, medically speaking, to a life that will be somewhat short." If the coldblooded, penny-pinching Chinese Communists ever take over Cambodia, Snookie's prophecy just might come true...
...steel settlement lifted a great burden from U.S. business, which had lived in dread and uncertainty for months about the possibility of a strike. The stock market climbed to three new records after the news, wound up the week with the Dow-Jones average standing at a robust 922. Most important, relief turned to a fresh wave of optimism as good economic news continued to pour...