Word: sustainers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...organize the stimuli in a way that will best promote her product. "After a while, everyone becomes his job," warns the Wizard, and Betsy has clearly completed the evolution. She is an ice-queen (Shepherd seems incapable of playing anything else), self-possessed for as long as she can sustain her fortress of manila folders and coy sexuality. But when Travis takes her to a 42nd Street moviehouse, she runs--the scent of real life, outside her redcarpeted office, is too much for her to deal with...
Before the hoopsters managed to sustain their staccato bursts of brilliance this weekend, coach Tom Sanders had criticized the frontline's lack of point production and rebounding...
Wertmuller reveals Pasqualino's history through a series of flashbacks which represent his reflections in the camp. To sustain his struggle for survival, Pasqualino draws on the experiences of his pre-war life, from his first romance to his mother's advice. this intercutting of past and present constantly reminds us that Pasqualino is making decisions, he is consciously choosing his actions rather than simply following the exigencies of the situation. Through this device, Wertmuller shows that those actions of Pasqualino's which appear to represent the most radical surrender of self-hood are animated by his desperate desire...
Startling Defeat. Again the President spoke in congressional shorthand: "Sustain the veto, and well come in 300 million over." Translation: if we can beat the Democrats' attempt to overturn my veto, I'll settle for a bill that is $300 million above what I originally wanted. In reply, the Republican leaders offered Ford their optimistic assurance that the veto would be sustained. "We're not going to have any trouble," said...
...Much that I know has come from Frank Fisher," he adds. Both agree that students should learn a skill--like international finance or pianotuning--to sustain their confidence and keep them solvent while they wait for their occupational ships to come...