Word: sustainer
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...brassy and absolutely clear singing inspired metaphors like "a chorus of taxi horns," but words never quite captured its unique qualities. Her trademark was the seemingly effortless ability to sustain a note so long that the orchestra could play phrase after phrase of the melody. Said the Merm: "I take a breath when I have to." What she called her "take-charge" manner was so unlike the spun sugar of other musical-comedy performers that composers shaped songs for her. Among the standards that still call her voice to memory are You're the Top from Anything Goes...
...means of familiarizing Americans with Tibetan custom. The Tibetan Book of the Dead is a thought-provoking, often powerful performance which leaves the audience highly intrigued. Yet because it proves so cumber some to imbibe such ritual with the accompanying level of theatricality, the show fails to develop and sustain our interest. How much one can be moved by the performance ultimately depends on the intensity and extent of one's religious and philosophical convictions. If you're looking for an opportunity to supplement your foreign cultures requirement and are up for an intensely thought provoking evening, however, you aren...
...unlisted phone numbers they have lost; the air around the Manhattan Bridge filled with the falling bodies of suicidal lovers; a service that rents cardboard cutouts of celebrities to fill up the room when a hopeless bachelor tries to give a party. A pity Director Arthur Hiller could not sustain such a high level of lunacy throughout this adaptation of Bruce Jay Friedman's pop-classic meditation on how urban realities undermine our urbane fantasies. If he had, unlikely adjectives like Felliniesque might now be accreting to The Lonely Guy. But half the film is merely joky...
...angry awareness that the false hopes raised in him by the educational policy from which this play takes its title are lies. Ginny Carlsen is a white college teacher reduced to showing students how to project an educated image for personnel directors, but prevented from providing substantial learning to sustain their careers or their lives. Playwright Shirley Lauro also has a second meaning in mind for her title, as she crudely but forcefully maneuvers her principal characters toward open admissions of their mutual victimization...
...woman saw her healthy newborn son, she wept tears of joy and relief. A typical reaction, one might say. But the circumstances were extraordinary. Five years ago the mother had been diagnosed as prematurely menopausal: her ovaries had ceased to release eggs or to produce the hormones needed to sustain a pregnancy. The child she had carried for nine months was the genetic offspring of another woman, who had donated an unfertilized egg. The birth of the world's first "donor-egg baby" in November, which was announced last week by scientists in Australia, marks a new step...