Word: vitalize
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Anyone who has followed the course of recent contemporary music knows that musical theater is once again where the action is. Composers of all stripes are finding that the blend of playacting, poetry, stagecraft, dance and music can be as vital and communicative as it was 300 years ago in Renaissance Florence. The label for this art form -- originally opera, operetta, musical, even Broadway show latterly -- matters not. Nor does the increasingly arbitrary distinction between high art and pop culture: Stephen Sondheim's Pacific Overtures and Sweeney Todd, for example, have joined Gershwin's Porgy and Bess in the repertoires...
Section Leader. "Uh, yes, thank you...and now, as I was saying...it is vital to consider just how much symbolic material can really be attributed to the author...
Hutton's statement, distributed by White House spokesman Marlin Fitzwater, said the first lady "feels good and her vital signs are strong and stable." It said Mrs. Reagan was feeling "very little pain" and was receiving a mild analgesic medication to deal with...
...naval hospital in Rio de Janeiro. There they are being treated by a core team of eight radiation specialists, including one from the U.S. and another from the Soviet Union. Bone-marrow transplants, which were conducted on Chernobyl survivors, are not being considered. Radiation can destroy the vital marrow, which produces among other things the white blood cells that help the body guard against infection, but some of the Goiania victims are so radioactive that new bone marrow would simply become contaminated. All patients are undergoing frequent decontamination baths and are drinking special liquids designed to soak up radiation...
...state will eventually provide vocational counselors to assist the workers in their career planning, said Rosa M. Benard, business liason between RCC and Sears. Officials said the courses and advice are vital because many of the workers have learned skills at the plant that may be too specialized to be useful elsewhere therse...