Word: vigorousness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...depressing, and its moody manner alienated many of the small children in attendance. This is not of itself a flaw--the murky moral conflict and mediocre acting hurt this production more than the play's tone does. Only Lithgow, as the black-clad, cigarette-smoking Death, brings vigor to his character, but his grave voice fits the part more exactly than his mannerisms...
...CALL: RED MOON (MCA). Mystical, mythic rock that stakes a strong claim in territory explored by the likes of the Band and Van Morrison. Wildly ambitious, the Call keeps well away from pretension with the unassuming vigor of its homespun rhythms...
Whether amused or appalled by the name calling, Texans are not surprised. "Dirtiness has been a Texas tradition," says Republican consultant John Weaver. "It's a blood sport." While the candidates have been slashing with equal vigor, Williams' ads have had far more visibility because he has outspent Richards $17 million to $11 million. A self-made success in oil and ranching, Williams threw $6.5 million of his own into the pot. Yet last week a Gallup poll showed that his lead of 10 points had diminished to 5 since September. The survey indicated that Williams has slipped...
While Rhodes candidates have traditionally been required to "be athletic and display vigor of body," today all this only means that you can't wheeze too much during your interview...
From his first Bellini-like and Giorgionesque paintings, through the classical certainties of his middle age -- such as the John the Baptist, a veritable column of vigor and controlled theatrical gesture -- and on to his late work, Titian never ceased to develop. Perhaps to a modern eye, late Titian is the most moving of all, for it goes beyond the pictorial rhetoric that made his success. It is broken, impressionistic and no longer interested in the classical ideal. From its smoky melancholy come Lear-like outcries of pessimism, whose fullest expression is reached in The Flaying of Marsyas, perhaps...