Word: sustained
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...started early in the week when Soweto's young militants, in an effort to sustain the black demonstrations against racial discrimination, called on all Soweto workers to stay home from their jobs in Johannesburg for three days. With leaflets, with placards, with shouted threats, they warned everyone to support the strike or pay the consequences. "Give our regards to your white masters," one worker on his way to Johannesburg was told. "We'll be waiting for you tonight." On the first day, about 40% of Soweto's work force stayed home...
...whole thing seems like an eccentric stunt. But as the film, done with care and affection, gets going, it works surprisingly well. Bugsy Malone is a jaunty, disarming, usually winning excursion into some of the nearer realms of movie fantasy, nostalgia and parody. Director-Writer Alan Parker manages to sustain this reckless undertaking because he makes it work as many of the best movies do: on a level of common fantasy. For every child smitten by the movies-for those who grew up and those still in the process-Bugsy Malone is a dream fulfilled. The kids are not just...
...boss-ridden as they once were, but they are just as synthetic in an up-to-date show-biz way. Newsmen used to armor themselves against the hokum by reporting it in the cynically fond style of amused outrage made popular by H.L. Mencken. That tone is harder to sustain these days, and a good many reporters and editors are now asking whether they are covering conventions in the right...
...because he was banished for embezzling post office funds. After settling his family in Maryland, across the bay from Annapolis, he set himself up as a schoolmaster and died when Peale was only nine. Peale's mother moved her brood to Annapolis, where she did embroidery to sustain her five children and apprenticed Charles (the eldest) to a saddlemaker at the age of twelve. By 20, Peale had married and gone into debt to open his own saddlery. He also diversified into upholstery, harnessmaking and silversmithing...
...testimonial, "she cares enough to be brilliant." Hopefully she will weather the hyperbolic fuss over film critics (these are only movie reviews, after all) and get over her recent phase of open-mouthed raptures. Reeling brings together another thoroughly enjoyable and stimulating round of reviews, and hopefully Kael will sustain enough independence and determination to prod our thinking for a few more volumes worth of reviews...