Word: vital
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...will remain in violate forever; sooner or later it will be drawn into the modern world where other Eskimos have fared so poorly. Says Hous ton: "Their art is the one thing that can preserve their pride in their Eskimo identity. So long as their art remains true and vital and coveted by the outside world, they will be saved from hopeless apathy in the face of the onslaught of the almighty kadluna [white man]. After they learn to cope with their new world, their art may die. All I ask is that it will then have served its purpose...
...wanted to make, relatively free of official interference, and the sense of freedom thrills in every frame. Kalatozov can seldom resist the brilliant angle and the trenchant frame, even when they interrupt the story, and his glorious effects of cutting and lighting are often spectacularly inappropriate. But somehow the vital extravagance of the film engages the spectator and whirls him along in its whirling mood. This mood is personified in Heroine Samoilova, an astonishingly imaginative young actress who is the type of Tolstoy's Natasha-slender, dark, expressive as a flame...
...stranger takes the hero on an all-night binge: amusement parks, dance palaces, nightclubs, whorehouses. When the night is over, the hero vomits up everything he has swallowed, everything that has happened. Next morning, on the way home, he meets a healthy, natural, vital young girl. She seems like life itself to him, everything he has missed. He pleads: "I won't be able to die unless I [can] live like you for just one day." She replies: "I only eat and work. I just make toy [bunnies]. I feel as if all the babies in Japan...
...head of Chicago's Walter E. Heller & Co., the largest independent U.S. commercial finance firm, he has helped finance the birth and growth of more than 13,000 small and medium-sized businesses-about one in 23 of all U.S. manufacturing corporations. Heller not only pumps in vital funds where banks shun the risk, but freely dispenses the advice and guidance that many struggling firms need as badly as money. His aim is to make them so Dig and fat that they no longer need him. In the process, his own company has grown big and fat: this week...
...Heredity is vital. "If either mother or father has it, you can bet your boots that at least one of any large family they produce will eventually become hypertensive; and if both parents have it, the majority of their offspring will be afflicted...