Word: constant
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...biases the audience's choice. In one scene Cathie complains that she lost yard privileges at the sanitarium because she refuses to eat fried grits. In the original play, that statement does not go unchallenged. "She lost yard privileges because she couldn't be trusted in the yard without constant supervision or even with it because she'd run to the fence and make signs to cars," nurse Sister Felicity says in the script--but not in this production...
...freshest product of observation turns out to have been used half a dozen times before. Degas copied everything from Mantegna to Mogul miniatures, and even the work of lesser painters than himself; an artist, he said, should not be allowed to draw so much as a radish without the constant habit of copying the Old Masters...
...most of the game, Harvard was on the defensive. Crimson goalie Liz Wald shut down Cornell in the first period, but Cornell's constant offensive pressure soon garnered results...
Howard Simons, curator of the Nieman Foundation, asked Alvear as well as a 1987-88 Nieman Fellow, Rosental Alvis, to help get Gonzalez out of Chile. The three placed calls to the American ambassador to Santiago and the Chilean ambassador to the United States. "The constant calling eventually resulted in the Chilean government letting her go," said Alvear...
...film chronicles the family's constant flight from the FBI. They move from city to city, changing their names and their identities each time. The central conflict occurs when Danny at the age of 17 Simultaneously falls in love and decides he wants to go to Juilliard. In what is obviously meant to be the film's Big Irony, Danny's parents are forced to choose whether to break up their family in the same way they did when they broke...