Word: vitality
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
While the main scenes are played centerstage, the other actors watch from the sides and the scaffolding. They may be recognizable characters from the play, overhearing but unable to act upon information vital to their interests. Or they may simply be serving as the eyes, ears and unsleeping conscience of both Victorian London and the modern audience...
...This is the dilemma that faces Broadway artists and entrepreneurs. The Shuberts and Nederlanders have demonstrated that show business can make money. The R.S.C., and to a lesser extent artists on Broadway and off, prove that it can make vital theater. The challenge ahead is to reconcile these opposites, and to do it on Broadway. "Broadway at its best gives the best people the resources to do their best," says Prince. The Fabulous Invalid cannot be killed off by an overdose of mediocrity; it can be rehabilitated by frequent injections of imagination and daring. As long as someone...
...that they could recommend entrusting a man like Hussain with the care of women and men in need of medical attention. And there is no room in academics for men who could satisfy their conception of the truth, not by lying outright, but by omitting from their recommendations a vital part of Hussain's background...
...presidential campaign, Mitterrand promised to put them under state control. More recently his aides have been saying that state control of finance is vital to ensure that their Socialist economic program is fully implemented. Said Jean Le Garrec, Mitterrand's Minister for Nationalizations, last week: "The bank nationalizations will guarantee the enforcing of the will of the state, not through some economic magic, but through assured mastery of banking and industry. This way we can be certain that the state's wish to restimulate the economy is carried...
...really is an intelligent, sympathetic man who is defending the faith in an age of pill popping and package deals. But she maintains an orthodox silence with rewarding results. Eventually Green's faults and peeves make his good qualities even more believable. Technically, he also serves as a vital navigational point in the author's explorations. She discusses a number of analytic approaches and comes to the sensible conclusion that the clinical skills needed to get a patient to talk and the doctor to listen are as important as variations on theory. In the final analysis, talking...