Word: vitalizing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Crimson now enters a stretch which will prove vital to any title hopes it might hold. It plays its next four doubleheaders at home, including a key pair of twinbills April 14 and 15 against Yale...
...range in her blue-eyed soul version of the Al Green classic "Take Me to the River." On another Motown classic, "Can't Get Next to You," she brings in a Spanish guitar to interesting effect. Ultimately, though, it is Lennox's voice that remains the album's most vital instrument...
...capitalism and its excesses as a great evil. The young man's apparent arrogance in handling huge amounts of other people's money not only shows a reckless attitude but is also possibly a payback to capitalism for past sins against working-class people. Whatever the motivation, it is vital for banks and financial institutions to find ways to protect themselves against such crusaders. Claus Faye-Thilesen Drammen, Norway COMPANIES, IN THEIR AVARICE, ARE IGNORING age and experience in favor of ego and ambition. And look at the results. Ann G. McDonald Omaha, Nebraska EVERY DOLLAR THAT LEESON LOST...
Musicals, revivals, fresh stagings of the classics, all are vital to a robust theater; but new scripts are its lifeblood. What accounts for London's superiority in nurturing them? Lower production costs, a larger number of subsidized theaters, and a more informed audience are among the usual factors cited-and 400 years of theatrical tradition doesn't hurt either. Arthur Miller, one of several American playwrights who of late have been more warmly appreciated in England than at home, points out that the London theater allows plays to survive and even flourish in a middle range between hit or flop...
Sometimes it seems the point of this exercise is simply to complicate--mainly by arbitrarily withholding vital information--what is, in its emotional essence, a not very complicated matter. But the sensible formality of Taylor Hackford's direction has the effect of cooling the film's narrative frenzies and helping the actors dig some simple, truthful stuff out of the hubbub. There is something great souled in Bates' work, which is at once sweet and fierce, hesitant and determined. She seems always to be surprising herself with her actions, brushing aside the calculations of the story with the sheer force...