Word: retains
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...begin until the R.A.F. officer inserts his key into the slot in the control board marked Launch Sequence (bottom center). The warhead cannot be activated until the U.S. offi cer inserts his key in the War-Peace slot (upper left), thus complying with U.S. law that the U.S. must retain "cus tody" of any atomic warheads supplied to an ally...
...fare. Result : while her operatic career has declined (she is now 47, he is 50), Stevens is still in demand for concert and TV performances. Surovy handles all the "commercial work" for his wife with such success that "if we ever got divorced, I think she'd still retain me as her personal manager." ¶Enrique Magrina, 38, was a law student at the University of Barcelona when he met his wife, Victoria de los Angeles, in 1942. Although she was studying voice, she had no real professional career until Magrina persuaded her to enter an international song festival...
...lighting and a mannered kind of acting carried over from the silent films.. But it is not the sort of antique that must be watched with embarrassment. Lotte Lenya, as Jennie, is gawkily charming, and such Kurt Weill-Bert Brecht songs as Mack the Knife and Pirate Jenny retain their peculiar combination of sentiment and cynicism, even when filtered through English subtitles. Viewers who have seen the English stage version that has played for several years in Manhattan's Greenwich Village will notice differences; the film, for some reason, has fewer songs, and its mockery of capitalism...
This probably seems like the height of modernity to a people who like to point out the island where Paris took Helen the first night after he stole her from Menelaus, and who still retain the purest links of Greece's pagan past. Old Maniots are convinced that Nereids haunt the local fountains, and mothers believe that the three Fates hover over an infant's cradle to write invisible destinies on the child's brow (moles are known as "writings of the Fates"). Seafarers claim that Gorgons grip their caiques in a storm and ask in ringing...
...then, the role hardly permits it. His chief asset is a face that combines an appealing boyishness with intelligent solemnity, the latter growing as the plays progress. He moves well and his voice handles verse cleanly and expressively. Particularly impressive in the tavern scenes, where he manages to retain his stature as Prince and heir to the throne even in the Boar's Head atmosphere, he excels in Henry's death scene, where he matches Weaver's virtuosity...