Word: constraint
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Granat contends that balancing the time constraint of tennis with that of academic demands can sometimes jeopardize one's individual performance...
Scarlett the telefilm is slightly more salacious than Scarlett the tome but ultimately no more compelling or fun. Margaret Mitchell's estate stipulated that a sequel to her 1936 novel not contain any explicit sex. The TV producers, spared this constraint, show Scarlett and Rhett disrobing each other frantically in a fisherman's hut. Moreover, the character of Lord Fenton (Sean Bean), with whom Scarlett has an affair, is given far more prominence than he enjoyed in the book. He is a secret rapist-murderer who beats Scarlett when she dismisses him. "I am not accustomed to sudden onsets...
...always hard to get people to write them, which puts a time constraint on the U.C.," especially with the housing lottery approaching rapidly, Grovesaid in an interview yesterday...
Also problematic for the procuction was its rather small stage, where its 29 members were frequently assembled. While the size constraint often made the ensemble scenes appear static, the enthusiasm of the actors and occasional inclusion of dance piece helped lighten the mood...
...Jewish woman named Helen Hirsch (Embeth Davidtz), whom he constantly beats and humiliates precisely because against all dictates of ideology, he loves her. The point about this man is that like Nazism itself, his irrationality cannot be contained by any appeal to civility, any system of legal or moral constraint. He is evil in all its banality, all its primal ferocity...