Word: vigorousness
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...legacy of the 16th century publisher Aldus Minutius. The skill and beauty of the Aldine editions of illustrated works like the Hypnerotomachia Poliphili fostered an unsurpassed quality in Venetian woodblock cutting. Indeed, Titian's twelve-sheet print The Submersion of Pharaoh's Army in the Red tonal vigor and grandeur of notation, is to woodcut what the Sistine Chapel is to fresco...
Statistics released by the Government last week confirmed the vigor of the recovery and the moderate pace of price increases. Industrial production in November jumped ahead .8%, the twelfth monthly increase...
While U.A.W. members are trying to win back concessions made to automakers during the recession, Chrysler directors last week offered Chairman Lee A. Iacocca, 59, a generous package to stay on the job. Of course it was Iacocca who turned give firm from near bankruptcy to profitable vigor. The board voted to give Iacocca 150,000 Chrysler shares if he remains another three years, and 50,000 more if he stays a fourth. Directors also approved options that allow him to buy 400,000 more shares later at $28. If Iacocca exercised them, and the stock rose another ten points...
...Scarface falls short of justifying its running time or its ambitions, it is still exhilarating for its vigor and craftsmanship. Visual Consultant Ferdinando Scarfiotti has designed the film in a kitsch-glitz riot of evocative colors: gold (for money), white (cocaine), red (blood) and black (death). As Tony vaults up the ladder of excess, his bad taste escalates as well. He trades in his yellow Caddy with the tiger-skin upholstery for a $43,000 gray Porsche. His favorite hangout, the Babylon nightclub, is a gaudy Erechtheum stocked with black Naugahyde banquettes, pink and blue ribbons of neon, black-marble...
...this economic expansion is going to be significantly limited by the huge deficits in the federal budget." Industry leaders share that anxiety. Says John Smale, president of Procter & Gamble: "The size of the federal deficit is a national problem of substantial urgency that must be addressed with statesmanship, vigor and speed...