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...right wing, she has won respect-and perhaps some support-from the left and center as well. The energy apparent in her spirited, sure-footed performances in the House has injected new life into a flagging party. After Heath's lackluster performance for most of last year, this vigor alone accounts for much of Mrs. Thatcher's appeal. "I just make lists of things to do and get a lot of pleasure in ticking them off," she once explained. And she has a long, long list...
...unrivaled master of 17th century Baroque painting. The austerities of modern art have taught us to feel queasy in the presence of his immense worldliness, Shakespearean erudition and, above all, his imagery: those nudes, pink bombé-fronted wardrobes of flesh; those heroes and captains and kings, displaying their vigor and assurance like baroque cock-birds of paradise; the fluster of rich fabrics and cloud, the lions and leopards and marble...
...Britain's Giles Cooper than it was as rewritten by Albee, or so some critics said. After creating the wily priest and the slandering lawyer in Tiny Alice, the play that immediately followed Virginia Woolf, Albee no longer seemed able to invent any characters that possessed dramatic vigor. They all appeared to be suffering from acute spinal inertia and total mental ennui. Finally, he largely abandoned his strong suit, which was a flair for vituperatively explosive dialogue and bitchy humor. Instead, his characters have spoken for years now with intolerably stilted pomposity, as if they had wandered...
Certainly there was no hard evidence to support the rumors that Brezhnev was on the brink of physical or political disablement. Nonetheless, a few faint signs and portents over the past two months pointed to a possible diminution of Brezhnev's vigor and perhaps even of his commanding position in the Kremlin. Some observers at the Vladivostok summit meeting with Gerald Ford thought that Brezhnev was not his usual doughty, ebullient self. Although he held up well during his initial seven-hour meeting with the U.S. President, he slept late the following day and looked peaked. In Paris...
...been missing for well over a year, so it may be assumed that Dad is ambivalent about his progeny. Since this is a Disney product, however, it is emphasized that Dad, while slow to act, is fierce once the decision is made. He undertakes the search with reassuring vigor and just the right dash of anxiety...