Word: sustained
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Midway through the final period the score was 27-20 but the 'Cliffe cagers were unable to sustain their momentum and finally succumbed...
...both defenders and detractors of the film have argued the question of violence on conventional critical grounds. Is it gratuitous, they ask, or does the larger context of the film sustain it? Is it exploitative or central to Kubrick's vision...
...things we said. But we also then asked whether the material coming in was significant. I think the general impression was that there was a significant flow of munitions. Isn't that correct? As I recall it, the amount of munitions coming along the trail could sustain the VC (Vietcong) although a good deal of munitions were coming in other ways too. So then the question was whether there were any technical means that we could see that might do a better job and be much less destructive. We wanted a more benign way of achieving the same...
...unfortunate that the quality of these episodes should sometimes be so uneven and, although it would be nice to say that the performers do their best to skirt the weak spots, they are in fact eager collaborators. Nonetheless, the cast is a delight from beginning to end, able to sustain the serious numbers as well as to excell in the comic ones--and there is more real humor in this show than in a whole slew of plays by Neil Simon...
With half the season still to go, Sharman has no doubt that the going will get tougher. Noting that the 1916 Giants set their record while playing at home, he explains that "it's harder to sustain a winning streak in basketball. We have tougher travel conditions and have to fight the other teams' home court advantage, which doesn't mean as much in baseball." That argument does not impress Laker Center Wilt Chamberlain, who remembers his days with the Harlem Globetrotters' traveling basketball show. "I played with them when they won all their games...