Word: vitalizing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Meanwhile, the teacher, ever desperate to exhibit vital signs, forages for inspirational material. How to convey that this stuff is essential? How to get across that what is not practically useful is most useful? They are salmon in the springtime, and Professor Backwards has one small porous net. To catch even one or two. Is that worth a life, Mr. Chips...
...surgeon's role is to assist the body in mounting a concerted defense against the intruders, be they cancerous cells or traumatic injuries. Nuland generally writes with a clarity that any journalist can envy. Still, the eyelids of the scientifically challenged may droop a bit amid the book's vital but unlyrical nuts-and-bolts background passages. For example, one sentence on cell division begins, "Meiosis is somewhat more complicated because its purpose is to result in a spermatogonium or oogonium with half the original chromosome number..." Yes, "complicated" is indeed the mot juste...
...Life is far from perfect. While startlingly raw for Broadway (the hookers are grungy, fleshy and foul-mouthed), the milieu will seem old hat to anyone who has seen, say, an episode of NYPD Blue, and the melodrama is often heavy-handed. What transforms the show is Coleman's vital, jazzy score--his best since Sweet Charity--and Michael Blakemore's crisp, less-is-more staging. The show starts out in high gear with an infectiously cynical ode to self-interest (Use What You Got), sung by hustler-narrator Jojo (the excellent Sam Harris), and keeps topping itself. Lillias White...
That is particularly true of what we now know were the vital first few months of their lives. A lot of those conversations seem to have taken place in the wee hours of the morning, at a time when I was so sleepy that I wasn't quite certain whether I was really awake or simply having another diaper dream...
...assist the body in mounting a concerted defense against the intruders, be they cancerous cells or traumatic injuries. "Nuland generally writes with a clarity that any journalist can envy," says TIME's John Elson. "Still, the eyelids of the scientifically challenged may droop a bit amid the book?s vital but unlyrical nuts-and-bolts background passages...