Word: sustained
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Appointment in Honduras (RKO Radio) is a problem picture. The problem: if Ann Sheridan, with nothing on her back but some translucent yellow nightclothes, is abandoned in a Central American jungle with six hot-blooded men, can the material sustain the stress of the situation...
...string sequence that later blends subtly with more agitated material. The orchestration is sometimes sharply contemporary, sometimes comfortably old-fashioned, but there is always an inner logic to this movement (and to the next one) that is almost relentless in its forward motion. Thompson, however, does not seem to sustain these feelings. The last two movements, if heard out of context, would be quite enjoyable; there is a nice, smooth melodic line in the third movement and some sprightly tunes in the finale, but these seem divorced from what had gone before. The frequent repetitions contrast unfavorably with the economy...
...Valle Arriba golf club, now quoted at $7,000. Caracas' mountain-fringed East End, filled with ever more of the sleek, pastel-walled villas favored by the moneyed musius (as Venezuelans call foreigners, from monsieur), is one of the sights of South America. To staff such places and sustain the pace of entertainment, some of the hard-trading, hard-drinking men who keep the dance of the Bs going hire two or three housemaids, a cook, a chauffeur, a butler and a gardener. (Average cook's wage: about...
...allowed, like printing, to be under private control . . . Private television companies, you argue, because they must look to advertising sponsors for their revenue, would necessarily be guilty of vulgarization [and] distortion [to] serve their own base interests. On the other hand, [the BBC] . . . may be relied on to sustain elevated standards. Let us see how the system has worked in practice...
...power to make the charge was the power to make it stick. Did any of these feared and fearing men challenge Malenkov, demand to know what evidence there was to sustain so grave a charge, or rise to Comrade Beria's defense? The subsequent communique said only that the Central Committee had decided to expel Beria from the party as "an enemy of the people...