Word: vigorousness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...their two teenage children. Their Spanish-style mansion in Los Angeles, just off Sunset Boulevard, contains a reference library of some 8,000 volumes within its walls. L'Amour is secretive about his age; published estimates put him in his early 70s, but he has the look and vigor of a man much younger, turning out three novels a year with metronomic regularity. He shuns the Hollywood party circuit...
...dominated by the left-wing local parties and powerful unions. Running under the new rules, Healey might have been beaten by the divisive champion of the party's radical left, M.P. Tony Benn. As it is, the popular Foot is expected to preempt House challenge and sail through vigor the next leadership election virtually unopposed. If he becomes Prime Minister any time soon, the relationship between Washington and London would be strained. A much greater philosophical contrast than that between Foot and U.S. President-elect Ronald Reagan cannot readily be imagined...
...ideological splits inside the Labor Party run deep, and Foot must first reconcile the mostly moderate M.P.s with the increasingly strident radicals gaining strength at the grass roots. That is a monumental task for a politician of great charm but less vigor, of coruscating rhetoric but lamentable lack of administrative skill. Even Foot's appearance arouses more affectionate regard than confidence in a strong leader. A frail figure at 67, with a flowing white mane and a slight limp, he exudes a benign vagueness in conversation. It did not help his image on his first day as leader when...
...knows all there will be to know about them. Jake is the loner with a special, terrible gift he can't control; Joey is weak, loyal and scheming; Vickie is an enigma wrapped in gilt. The first hour of the film sets up the situation with a naturalistic vigor and cinematic resourcefulness unique to Scorsese. He knows precisely how to move the camera, dress a set, direct his splendid actors, underlay the music, edit to keep the viewer off guard and consistently impressed. But Raging Bull has nowhere to go but down and out. As Jake follows the trajectory...
...even massive Republican fecklessness in the next four years would not automatically restore the Democrats to their previous vigor. To start, they must bring back at least a degree of party discipline, perhaps by partly undoing the 1972 reforms. They must somehow escape their orthodoxies and old incantations, a tendency toward reflexive liberalism that faces problems by creating Government agencies and printing more money to pay for them. Democratic Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan of New York wrote tellingly last summer: "Of a sudden, the G.O.P. has become a party of ideas...