Word: vital
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Judging by the pace at which they're working, both Gordimer and Walcott appear to be surviving the Nobel. Gordimer's new novel, The House Gun, which comes out this month, is a tense postapartheid family drama as vital as anything she has ever written. The protagonists are a white upper-middle-class couple who've managed to glide through their country's revolution without so much as a hair out of place. Then their adult son confesses to murder, and the stalled karmic wheels begin to turn. The story deftly brings home a tricky truth: peace...
...make a moral determination on this." Exactly wrong: the museum's responsibility for moral issues stops with the works in its own collection. MOMA had a loan contract with the Leopold Foundation to return the works to Vienna as soon as the show closed. Such contracts are, of course, vital to the arrangement of institutional art loans. The free circulation of works of art among museums depends on them. "If we can't honor our contracts, it will have the iciest chilling effect on loans," MOMA's legal counsel, Stephen Clark, told the New York Times. "Who would lend, knowing...
...backed loans, Rubin was hardly eager to get out front in the Asian economic crunch. As the liquidity crisis swept across Southeast Asia last summer, Rubin and other U.S. officials urged the International Monetary Fund to take the lead. Washington did not regard the Thai or Malaysian economy as vital to American interests, and in a year that had seen far too many fund-raising stories about Jakarta's Mochtar Riady and the Lippo Group, the Administration could hardly take the lead for anything Indonesian. Despite prosperity at home, the nation--and Congress in particular--was in no mood...
...Evidence in Ramsey Case A new commander told police investigating the murder of JonBenet Ramsey to take another look at collected evidence, TIME reports. And ? surprise! ? they uncovered vital items that had been previously dismissed...
...year-old beauty queen after she was garroted. The flashlight was spotted on the kitchen counter of the Ramseys? home on the morning that JonBenet?s body was found, but then disappeared. Some investigators dismissed it as belonging to a police officer. But now, TIME has learned, the potentially vital piece of evidence has turned up. After the new police commander, Mark Beckner, ordered a full review of all case files and materials, it was discovered ? where else? ? right at police headquarters, in a storage area where investigators are holding a pile of other evidence. The flashlight, which doesn...