Word: sustained
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Miroir soars and sparkles on occasion, but fails to sustain a high level of quality throughout. The piece's major fault is that it lacks any logic to carry the listener through. The serial composition is by the composer's own admission, a musical almanac "going from Beethoven to Schoenberg in five minutes." Harmonically it shows a startling resourcefulness, both tonal and non-tonal. Particularly amusing was the recurrence of a particularly slushy theme, either because of the humorous contrast with Pousseur's art, or perhaps due to its explicit banality in the Pousseur context...
...stuff they breathe; it is their lifeline, their hope, their only chance of survival if they are attacked by the 30,000 or so North Vietnamese regulars who surround them. As part of one of the most massive aerial support and attack campaigns ever mounted, U.S. pilots struggled to sustain and shield Khe Sanh. Air Force and Marine transport pilots last week flew 79 supply sorties, delivering nearly 1,200 tons of food, water, medicine and ammunition to the besieged outpost. Fighter-bombers and giant B-52s flew some 2,000 sorties over enemy positions, plastering the jungle and hills...
...fact, the present first-year class will probably sustain greater injury than next year's. Certain areas of study, such as the Natural Sciences, stand to suffer much more than others, and specific departments may see virtually an entire class of scholars wiped out, because these areas and departments have a greater proportion of students who may be drafted...
...sort of thing he does best. Hanley's Flesh and Blood is the saga of a construction worker's family with all the woes of Eugene O'Neill's Hartford clan but none of the dramatic impact. Even such a formidable cast could not sustain the numbing two-hour trickle of unspeakable secrets...
...designed by Bennington and executed by a Loeb team, didn't do much to help. For the most part, the dancers were clumsily spotted by pools of light cast from above. Thus foreshortened from overhead, the desired illusion that the dancer's motions cut through space was difficult to sustain. Instead, performers often looked as though they were progressing from one focus to another. Only two choreographers. Catherine Stern in Personna and Wendy Summit in Void tried different lighting. In Personna a shaft of light was thrown from stage left like a flashlight beam. In contrast Void was nullified...