Here is the familiar language of every break-up, but made fresh and vital by the play's co-writers and actors who match that vitality.
That freshness, that vitality, entranced news gatherers.
But can that vitality persist as the national bottlers continue to expand their power?
European Council president Herman van Rompuy is claiming that Latvia's arrival shows that "vitality" of the euro.
"The great cities of Europe are beautiful but they lack that vitality, the totally raw, contemporary relevance that New York has".
"When kids lack that vitality and the energy that makes them what they are … when that is absent you really notice it.
In focus groups, consumers in that age bracket wanted gum "that embodies more of an air of sophistication," said Mr. Herrera, adding that Vitality is "a big lifestyle play for us".
"It's been a theme in Allen's films since at least Interiors that vitality in women is somehow grotesque," wrote Adam Mars-Jones of his last film, Bullets over Broadway, which contained no less than three shrill examples.
Given all that vitality, death was the farthest thing from Ms. Reynolds's mind when she kissed him goodbye after failing to persuade him to take their son along for the ride.
Cohen was a respected poet before setting his verse to song in the late 1960s, and poets, it has to be said, have a better track record of retaining that vitality than popular recording artists.
Canby was writing from the Cannes International Film Festival, where "Pulp Fiction" won the top prize, the Palme d'Or, but that vitality survives on discs peppered with explosive doses of Tarantino filmed then and recently.
