Word: sustain
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Still, with a landmass of 8.6 million sq. mi. and a population of 271 million, the Soviet Union would present logistical problems for even the most efficient police organization. The KGB manages to sustain the illusion of being all-powerful largely because Soviet citizens police one another. Schoolchildren are taught to revere Pavlik Morozov, a 13-year-old who was murdered by enraged villagers during the forced collectivization of farms in the early 1930s after he informed local Communist authorities that his father was sheltering more prosperous peasants. Few Soviets today would be likely to follow young Pavlik's example...
...glimpse, in which the 'symbolic children,' donning bowler hats and other adult clothes prance to a sentimental tune played on the familiar piano, haunts as a danse macabre. But even if a metaphor superimposed upon another should create an interesting metaphor for the ever-central void, the concept cannot sustain interest for all that long. Whatever its merits, the piece is likelier to clicit a perturbed yawn than a leap of any sort...
...midst of a disappointing season for new plays, Manhattan stage producers are relying on a gimmick to sustain interest in current hits: hiring pop-identifiable personalities to take over major roles. To wit, Debbie Reynolds will replace Raquel Welch who replaced Lauren Bacall in Woman of the Year. Teenswooner Andy Gibb is now headlining Broadway's Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, and yes, no less than Bert Convy, the chirpy host of TV's Tattletales, is replacing Raul Julia for two weeks in the musical Nine. Of all the recent replacements, however, the most interesting...
...another name for it," he says, "but let's just call it hardheaded détente. It's critical for our national security. You can't hold an alliance, or a country, together just with fear. Fear alone won't allow a free nation to sustain the support necessary for high defense budgets and an intelligent foreign policy that avoids the ingredient pitfalls of isolationism and protectionism...
...life of its own, like Gogol's nose, appearing on the moon, at the circus and even at school, where it spouts wisdom like "Alaska is the President of Brazil." David Lord Porter's whimsical prose and David Macaulay's antic drawings combine to sustain an air of credible lunacy to the indisputable punch line: "Be careful what you throw away. You might want it back...