Word: sustainer
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...with the slipperiness of glasnost and the refusal of U.S. hard-liners to embrace perestroika. Deighton, on the other hand, is caught embarrassingly short. Spy Line, his new novel, puts him five books into a convoluted six- volume series that depends on East Germany's walled-in villainy to sustain its gray and sunless menace...
Yale University Press Director John G. Ryden '61 said Rosenthal's successor must sustain Harvard's commanding position in the university press industry...
...experience under the brute weight of price. It is not a compliment to the work. If there were only one copy of each book in the world, fought over by multimillionaires and investment trusts, what would happen to one's sense of literature -- the tissue of its meanings that sustain a common discourse? What strip mining is to nature, the art market has become to culture...
...says Richard Briers, who plays Bardolph in the film Henry and will assay King Lear in the Renaissance's tour of the U.S. next year. Branagh needed that royal self-assurance to build a major acting company and mount a large film. He will need more of it to sustain his career at its current velocity. "Quite soon," says Terry Hands, the RSC's artistic director, "Ken must decide whether he will be an admin man or a great actor. If a leading actor is also running the whole show, he's worried about the box office, the creaking floorboard...
...Salgar. "We are dealing with a criminal wave that does not tolerate opposition. We are learning to live with terror." For top editors and a few prominent reporters and columnists, that can mean traveling with bodyguards or maintaining round- the-clock protection at home. Most, however, just try to sustain their courage and vary their routes home...