Word: vitalize
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...tiny Tuck is injected into the body of Jack Putter (Martin Short), a wimpy Safeway clerk. Before Tuck's oxygen supply runs out -- at 9 tomorrow morning -- Jack must find the courage and smarts to escape from a speeding truck, undergo a frightening face-lifting, steal a vital microchip, fight off a couple of midget dastards and win the confidence of Tuck's skeptical girlfriend (Meg Ryan). If Tuck has anything to do with it, Jack will find all the resources he needs right inside him. And his arrogant little friend, who is fond of gazing in the mirror...
...foreign policy aberration. The operation had only the most tangential connection with the Reagan Doctrine, even if one accepts the geopolitical justification of cultivating moderates in Iran to help swing a post-Khomeini government away from hostility to the U.S., and thus frustrate Soviet designs on a vital region. That justification was not much more than a rationalization for North, who initially horned in on the affair as the NSC's antiterrorist expert. His electronic messages to Poindexter spoke in the crudest terms of so many weapons to be traded for each American hostage freed. But the operation sadly - illustrates...
...conceiving this special issue on the Constitution, TIME's editors set out to portray the charter not as a dry historical relic but as a vital part of American life. Says Senior Editor Jose M. Ferrer III, who oversaw the project: "We thought, 'If it is a living document, as is often said, why is that so? What is the news of it?' We took off from there. We wanted to show that the Constitution is all around us in ways we almost take for granted...
...scene of miracle working repeated often enough in hospitals throughout the country. A tiny human being, weighing merely a pound, enters the world with premature haste. His lungs are too rudimentary to admit vital air, his kidneys too weak to cleanse blood. Neonatologists, nurses and technicians descend, stabilizing his heartbeat and temperature, blanketing him in plastic and whisking him off to the intensive-care unit...
...think that this has ever happened before," said Matlock. Such lofty authorities from the U.S., their minds stuffed with the greatest secrets of the nation, had never clustered in the bear's den, for the simple, spy- novel reason that they might be compromised and the vital stuff sweated out of them...