Word: vigor
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...album opens on a note of embattled optimism with Heaven: "I need something that I can believe in/ And another person just won't do . . . I believe . . . that there's better days ahead/ I believe . . . there's a heaven before I'm dead." Kempner trucks fresh force and vigor to the antiwar genre in Soldier's Home, then brings the war home in Against My Will, whose protagonist is an American hostage. The situation is familiar ("I'm sitting in a foreign country/ In an army barracks hidden in the hills/ I've been here for nearly seven months...
...months, portents have flashed across the financial heavens, feeding expectations of renewed vigor for the sluggish world economy. The price of oil has been in free fall, lifting a multibillion-dollar burden from industrialized and Third World countries. International interest rates have been dropping steadily, clearing away yet another obstacle to growth. In the U.S., the declining dollar has been named a harbinger of strengthened international competitiveness, meaning that the country's bedraggled manufacturing and farming sectors would once again revive and help refuel the world's foremost engine of economic expansion...
Archer's hero is Adam Scott, a former British army captain who goes on the run and has trouble crossing borders. The pages turn amusingly, and secret agents from several nations chase the protagonist with vigor and invention. But all this hare-and-hounding is the result of a mixup, and one suspects quite early on that when that nice Captain Scott is given a hearing, it will be the agents who are in trouble...
...relatively advanced age of four years, the bull market continues to show signs of youthful vigor. Last week the Dow Jones industrial average passed the 1900 mark for the first time in history and stayed just enough above it to close the week at 1900.87, up 15.61 for the four trading days. The Dow is now more than 350 points higher than it was at the start of the year. Main reason for recent gains: investors foresee further declines in interest rates. Robert Farrell, chief market analyst at Merrill Lynch, expects that stocks will suffer a temporary setback...
...actor in old age is not King Lear. His poise and vigor are astonishing. If one were to look satirically at Reagan, it would be to see him not as a doddering old man but as a weird presidential version of one of the "action figures" with which children of the '80s play: G.I. Joe, Captain America, He-Man. Saturday-morning TV dialogue emanates from the Oval Office: "Quick, Cap, there's not a moment to lose! The evil Gaddafi is attacking our fleet inside the 'line of death...