Word: strongest
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...fortunate that Harvard is choosing to secrete some of the documentation in this case," city councilor David Sullivan, one of the strongest supporters of the city's anti-condominium conversion ordinances, said this week. "It may set an important precedent that landlords will have to make a full disclosure," he added...
...Williams--nine out of 14--many gave their best performances of the season. Outside shooters Coco Trumbull and Marlene Schoofs hit some excellent roll shots. "They're hitting the ball hard, and that's been a long time coming," Altman said, calling the team's group performance its strongest...
...Weill's music. The two independent elements complementing each other set forth the positions and ideas presented in each, most notably in the ballads. The ballads, more than the text itself, state the characters' situations objectively. Cutler's staging for these ballads underscores their epic nature; they are the strongest cohesive element of the production. The Second Threepenny Finale: What Keeps Mankind Alive?, which closes the second act, encapsulates the message of the play, "Food is the first thing. Morals follow on." Rarely has the persistence of man's struggle against man been so strikingly captured with words and music...
...character in an individual style impeccably suited to that character's function. Daphne de Marneffe gives Polly Peachum just enough soiled innocence. With a simple shrug, de Marneffe gives over Polly Peachum for the spectator to study, to chew up and to spit right back. Martha Hackett gives the strongest female presence of the production Artfully establishing the distance between herself, the character, and the audience, Hackett states clearly that most human conflict between fantasy and reality, between love and money. Her husky voice capturing the harsh sweetness of Weill's music evokes a visceral pleasure in the spectator...
...leaders banter about their airplanes and cars, but personal wealth is no longer part of the ruling equation, at least as it was centuries ago. The strongest bond is the shared burden of governing. At one juncture of the SALT I negotiations in Moscow nine years ago, to prove how difficult were Nixon's domestic problems with the treaty, Brezhnev was shown a secret cable from U.S. generals protesting the proposed agreement. Brezhnev smiled, and then whispered that he could show American negotiators almost identical dispatches from his own obstinate military...