Word: vigor
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Others assert the only result of that vigor has been to leave Square businesses and residents frustrated. "Some people feel that it's a waste of time, energy and money and that the whole process is frivolous," says a board member of the Harvard Square Business Association who asked to remain anonymous...
...past tense the problem is that you catch yourself saying, "I was..." and feel the tip of the wing of the angel of death. But the trickiest form of speech by far is the future. One of the first things lost to real illness isn't alertness or vigor. It's the simple pleasure of saying, in full confidence, "I will...
Madonna once again confounds our expectations--and, at times, exasperations. At first a star more famous for attitude than for voice, she proved, in the 1990 Dick Tracy, equal to the sere demands of Stephen Sondheim's songs. Here again she does a tough score proud. Lacking the vocal vigor of Elaine Paige's West End Evita, Madonna plays Evita with a poignant weariness, as if death has shrouded her from infancy. And dressed in sumptuous gowns or feeling life seep away, she has more than just a little bit of star quality. Just before Eva's death, she sings...
...Game. Two words, so much history. A rivalry between two of the oldest colleges in the nation. An Ivy League battle to determine athletic prowess in two schools revered more for their brain power and strength of will and character than their physiological vigor...
...surpassing any of his post-Kennedy predecessors'. With his palpable need to be loved, Clinton is surely the most psychologically compelling President we have had since the dark one-two punch of Lyndon Johnson and Richard Nixon. Plus, he offers us the warmth and charisma of Ronald Reagan, the vigor, shall we say, of Kennedy and, somewhere in the mix, a dollop of Jimmy Carter's sanctimoniousness. You could even say Bill Clinton is a stylistic summation of the late-20th century presidency in the way his wife's head has been the site for a stylistic summation of late...