Word: maintain
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...fact she adds the divesting will have "positive benefits" for tenants such as increased responsiveness by the resident landlords. The University has always found the smaller units like the two and three family apartments now being sold difficult and expensive to maintain...
...problem, however, is energy -- the show just doesn't reach the necessary spirit of excitement and maintain it consistently throughout. It is most definitely a work which depends on its cast coming together early and acting as one organic whole. But as a group, they simply don't mesh well together until the second act. The first hour remains choppy and discontinuous, possibly a flaw as much in the play itself as in the production...
Because of the absence of physical action, the actors pay careful attention to maintaining the proper emotional balance. And for the most part, such carefully modulated performances are successful. Norris and Dishy maintain a constant level of sexual and psychological tension, yet they never allow it to get out of hand. Though such control does keep Dishy from initially conveying an adequate sense of humiliation after losing her virginity, by the time the play climaxes, both she and Norris bring their emotions to a powerful simmer...
...supporters of Garrity said the foot dragging by the Legislature is at best laziness and at worst a concerted attempt to maintain the status...
...both his doctors and his widow maintain that the operation was "worth everything...