Word: vitality
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...provocations of Bonfire are not gratuitous. They are embedded in convincing contexts and experienced through the eyes, ears and nerve endings of the characters. This technique is what makes Wolfe's journalism so vital and gives him authority as a novelist. This, and his ability to handle an imaginative and intricate plot that welds his descriptions of dinner parties, restaurant games, Wall Street trading and courthouse chaos into more than a tour de force. Even at more than 600 pages, Bonfire moves with a swift comic logic. It has become a critical cliche to say that a book is hard...
...loss of 2%. The continued decline cast a pall over the Conservative government's latest sell-off of state-owned enterprises. Mexico's market, though small by comparison, fell drastically, as investors watched fearfully for signs of a recession in the U.S., the biggest purchaser of Mexico's vital exports...
Councilor Alice K. Wolf, who finished fourth of nine Councilors in 1985, said last night that she feared she might get too few vital numberone votes. "I heard a lot of people saying, `you've got my number two vote,'" she said...
Public indifference to presidential mistakes leaves the press without a source of criticism vital to a rounded analysis of a presidency, she said...
...government of Corazon Aquino, Columnist Luis Beltran of the daily Philippine Star has always been a gadfly. Last year he caused a stir by accusing a top Aquino aide of leaking vital state papers. Last week Beltran wrote that during the failed military mutiny in August "the President hid under her bed . . . perhaps the first commander in chief of the armed forces...