Word: vital
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...pageant has been nervous, trying to keep traditionalists content while courting the interest of modern young women. Some ambiguity is inevitable. Christine is liberated by any standard, adamant that the public perceive her as a "woman who can take care of herself." When a reporter asks for her vital statistics, she looks him square in the eye and says, "I don't know. I don't even know how much I weigh." But she slips into the word "girls" when lapsing into pageant talk. And she will not comment on the Equal Rights Amendment because, she says...
...suffered shattering legislative setbacks. Last year the common-situs bill that would have allowed a single striking union to shut an entire construction site went down to a totally unexpected defeat in the House. Two months ago, the unions lost on a labor-reform bill that they regarded as vital to reverse their decline in membership. The bill, among other things, would have allowed organizers easier access to nonunion shops...
...shops. Others argue that the markets should have been restored accurately to their 19th century appearance. But Thompson's wife and associate, Jane, rejects what she calls "a Williamsburg mentality, where you have people in costumes catering to tourists." She adds: "We wanted the complex to be economically vital. If you get too many tourists coming through, they discourage the residents and then the merchants start selling little trinkets. You can't support a place with that." Most architects like the compromise. Says Architect George Notter: "A sense of the original buildings conies through with dignity and power...
...review of National Lampoon's "Animal House" desplays an aching lack of sensitivity to the very real human issues at stake in the education of our youth. How can Multer possibly look kindly on a film that condones premarital sex, alcholism, random violence and the gross over-consumption of vital food resources? America will never be great again as long as this leading astray of our youth by the purveyors of smut and boorishness continues. Moulter speaks glowingly of the National Lampoon's "sick" sense of humor: I submit that this sickness is in his own mind, and those...
...worked with again and again. I expect to work with them for the next ten years. We were the generation that discovered that alienation is funny. We found that if you take an existentialist, add a hot Camaro, a skateboard and a lot of dope, you have a working, vital existentialist who can get a job at the National Lampoon...