Word: vital
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...medium. He believed firmly that a writer who couldn't handle dialogue could never be considered first-rate. His ear for the nuance of speech is unsurpassed at times; he makes the reader feel like an eavesdropper. O'Hara does not just record speech patterns--his role is a vital one, he controls even the most intimate conversations to further plot and character development. Some of his short stories rely almost exclusively on the spoken word. In "Two Turtledoves," the brief story of two lovers meeting in a deserted New Jersey bar on Christmas Eve, he employs this technique masterfully...
Things looked even bleaker when Crimson playmaker Rick Benvel went down on the court, clutching his knee in pain. His loss would have been costly, because as Coach O'Neil said, "He is the most improved player on the team and a vital cog to our offense...
...venture into foreign policy. He saw no "coherent global view" in U.S. policy, citing American diplomacy in Cyprus, Lebanon and Angola as confused and Secretary of State Henry Kissinger as unrealistic in expecting Congress to approve aid to Angola when the Administration had failed to explain why this was vital to U.S. national security. When Republican Governor Meldrim Thomson predicted last week that Reagan, whom he backs, would win more than 50% of the vote, other Reagan strategists insisted on lower estimates; part of the game, of course, is to underestimate the candidate's strength so anything better will...
...Dwight Eisenhower who first exposed his vital organs to public scrutiny. James Hagerty, Ike's press secretary, believes that if all those bits about pulse and blood pressure had not been put out when Ike had his heart attack in 1955, he might have lost the 1956 election. The nation was broadly educated for the first time about heart disease and concluded that 1) Ike had been honest with the people and 2) was able to continue in office once he recovered. However, when Ike was out with that heart attack, then ileitis, his Administration pretty much marked time...
CLAES OLDENBURG is not just a sculptor, he is a magician. Ordinary objects, under his hands, metamorphose into vital and eloquent forms; he can create an Ovidian phantasmagoria from a cigarette butt, or animate a movie camera. His art works imaginative miracles with the stuff of everyday existence. Typewriter erasers are infused with life, clothespins garbed in symbolism. He's the type of person who could change your water into wine...