Word: vigor
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...clearest message of Men and Angels is that the absence of maternal affection can destroy, although not invariably. Gordon's questions and her manner of raising them are more interesting than the possible answers. The novel's intellectual vigor is occasionally blunted by the earnest opacity of its heroine. Despite the assurances of two different characters that Anne has "a first-rate mind," she often must thrash through her solipsism and self-absorption toward revelations that most adults and bright children already know. She sees a pair of boots in a Manhattan store and realizes, since she is now winning...
...nation's history, had handed over power to someone from the younger generation, an event as monumental in its way as the death of Stalin in 1953. The Kremlin no longer could be viewed as the domain of ailing and absent rulers; its boss was now a man of vigor who might well lead the Soviet Union into the 21st century...
...weeks Gavin and other U.S. officials had criticized Mexico's "lack of vigor and . . . cooperation" in the hunt for Camarena. The U.S. went so far as to inspect every automobile at many of the 26 official crossing points along the 2,000-mile U.S.-Mexican border, aggravating already tense diplomatic relations. Last week, after drug traffickers threatened to kidnap and kill a Customs officer, U.S. border agents packed .357 Magnum revolvers and carried shotguns on duty. Nine remote stations were closed, hurting business in border towns from California to Texas. At week's end only two had been reopened...
...directed by Robert O'Hearn and Nathaniel Merrill, is handsome, if not as spectacular as Douglas W. Schmidt's Radio City triumph. Arthur Mitchell, director of the Dance Theater of Harlem, assisted Merrill with the vivid fights and crowd scenes and staged the dances, underscoring the slice-of-life vigor that is the opera's chief asset...
...change reflects new fashions in art. Impassive styles of the 1960s and '70s - the chaste morsels of minimalism, the arctic pleasures of conceptualism - are now well in retreat before a wave of gesture, expressionism and all the tumult of "painterly" painting. Encouraged by a climate favoring vigor and personality, artists are propelling the brush past the borders of the canvas or turning out sculpturally elaborated frames that complement work in which the hand prevails. At the same time, a general drift away from resolutely flat abstractions and a return to representational painting have revived notions of the picture...