Word: sustain
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Webb, U.S. Attorney in Chicago, said Friday that he had carefully reviewed Farrakhan's alleged threat and found "insufficient evidence of the requisite criminal intent" to sustain a prosecution...
...views of last summer's pathetic reworking of the 1948 French classic Breathless can attest to Even superstud Richard Gere couldn't save Breathless flaccid plot. And in The Bounty, even fine performances by Australian hearthrob Mel Gibson and the superb English character actor Anthony Hopkins cannot sustain this reinterpretation of the well-known Mutiny on the Bounty saga. The Bounty reflects a prevalent new twist in the remake trend, seen earlier this spring in Greystoke, the latest turn to the Tatzan story. Both films purport to be more than mere copies of old films by adding new insights...
...Halpern sensitively draws forth the unsettled and quite neurotic aspects of Sally all throughout the show. While we cannot be made to admire Sally or pass over her lack of vision and strength, Halpern captures an essential sweetness and allurement. Halpern's Sally and Hummel's Cliff manage to sustain the convincingly potent magnetism of their first meeting. But even so, some plot turns, like their decision to get married, seem to come too suddenly. When Cliff realizes that he has been "sleepwalking" as the Nazis rise and must now wake up. Hummel communicates a freshness and intelligence. Cliff...
Such signs of trendy "me" generationism from the West are bound to disrupt a culture famous for both its antiquity and its insularity. As it has tried to yank itself into modernity while preserving its respect for history, to sustain simultaneously its dedication to progress and its devotion to the past, Deng's China?like contemporary Japan in its very different way?has often lost its balance...
...EVENING, HOWEVER, belongs to freshman Julie Glucksman who charms and coruscates as Nora. Beautiful enough to carry off lines like "it's a good thing everything looks good on me" and delightful enough to make us understand Torvald's obsession. Glucksman also manages to sustain a fine balance between her character's outward uncertainty and inner strength. Her refusal to play the cliched "strong woman" through the first two acts makes Nora's third act awakening all the more shattering. Instead of emphasizing the potentially didactic element of the script. Glucksman convincingly brings out the deeper, more rivelling dilemma...