Word: vital
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Whether or not the stereotype is completely true, few members of the University would deny that the teaching fellows are vital to Harvard's educational system. It is graduate students who make it possible for 800-plus students to enroll in courses like Foreign Cultures 48, "The Cultural Revolution." And Social Analysis 10, "The Principles of Economics," could not be taught almost entirely in small groups without the course's more than 30 graduate student section leaders. Although teaching can take up a huge chunk of their time, graduate students take on courses because they enjoy interacting with undergraduates...
...David was wrong; for in Cannes, the Brits were proving they have the world's most vital, varied cinema. Terence Davies' Distant Voices, Still Lives -- the best film at the festival and the winner of a critics' prize -- portrays, through popular songs, a Liverpool family trapped in economic poverty and emotional repression. Nicolas Roeg's Track 29, written by Dennis Potter, goes splendidly berserk satirizing American males, obsessed with their toys, and American females, driven to homicidal embrace. In Peter Greenaway's Drowning by Numbers, three women murder their husbands and enlist the help of a coroner, who is besotted...
...house in the capital: "Women in labor are treated like cattle. There's one midwife for every 15 women." Alexander Baranov, a Deputy Minister of Health, admitted in a recent newspaper interview that gynecologic clinics are no better, most of them lacking heat and plumbing. Yet the clinics are vital to the female population: 1 out of 3 Soviet women has gynecologic problems, and miscarriages are common...
...irresistible. Equipment to do it is relatively cheap. You can hone your skills on a grand backyard ramp or in a special park, but a downtown sidewalk will do just as nicely. The action is fast, furious and decidedly funky. Uniforms are not required, but style is vital, and the available styles are great. You can talk about it in resonant slang whose references to half pipes and acid drops, crackin' Ollies and catchin' air can be as arcane as a Rosicrucian oath. You can do it in the country or city, by a beach or across some asphalt...
...clear that certain sports don't have what it takes to attract spectators. Whatever vital quality it is that they lack, it tends to be gender-blind. No matter how many Eastern titles the men's swimming team wins, the squad's season crowd total probably wouldn't fill Bright Center...