Word: vital
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...This is a disaster," Arthur M. Vital said as he walked home. "It's a big farce. ...You can't get anywhere near...
...being debated back and forth by the candidates, and that instead we hear the same tired old rhetoric about such issues as the deficit, welfare reform and family values. Cynicism in this area is unwarranted for two reasons. To begin with, these topics may be old, but they are vital and unresolved. If we allow our attention to waver simply because we've heard it all before, then perhaps we've been watching a little too much television. Additionally, there are new ideas out there which are vibrant and exciting. For instance, Clinton's plan to raise an army...
...performer, Miller combines boundless energy with a keen sense for the outlandishly funny. While many have found Miller's nudity in this and other pieces offensive, there is no doubt that his body is vital to the sexual frankness of his art. From the moment he affectionately tells the audience that they remind him of a bed of pubic hair, to when he masturbates with a piece of Valencia orange stuck in his mouth, to the climactic moment when he orgasms to Handel's "Messiah," Miller is a paragon of eros, humor and theatricality packed into one vital, often naked...
Where Austen places marriage at the center of her novels, "Fruit Cocktail" effectively proposes that sex is, for many, the most vital part of contemporary gay male experience. Miller's piece is a familiar refrain of boyhood discovery, adolescent repression and ultimate sexual release, as he moves from his childhood in Whittier, California, to his backyard autoerotic exploits, to his first sexual encounter with a modern dancer named David. One never tires of hearing stories like this, but the taboos of the dominant sexual order prevent them from being told often enough (Miller's notorious battles with government officials over...
...intents and purposes, the Democrats and the Republicans are both incumbent parties, and the prospect that either will cede some of their own power is dim. Nonetheless, it is the only way. In this election year, members of both parties, or at least those that care about a vital democracy, must call on their candidates to take this important step quickly...