Word: sustainers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that the cooling-off period had not succeeded in moving management toward his position or in rallying strike support. Indeed, only several hundred of the N.F.L.'s 1,200 veterans would have left camp had a new walkout been called. The players were simply not hungry enough to sustain a strike...
...would vote for the impeachment of the President. On Article I, at least, that would make the committee unanimously in favor of sending Nixon to trial in the Senate. Barely controlling his emotions, Wiggins read a statement saying that the new facts were "legally sufficient in my opinion to sustain at least one count against the President of conspiracy to obstruct justice." It was time, he added, for "the President, the Vice President, the Chief Justice and the leaders of the House and Senate together in the White House to discuss the orderly transition of power from Richard Nixon...
...loyal party workhorse and proud of it. He could be counted on to vote against most all Democratic legislation, worthy or not. He voted no on subsidized housing, aid to education, Medicare, the antipoverty program, minimum wage bills. In 1973, he was one of 70 Congressmen to vote to sustain all of Nixon's vetoes. On occasion, he has taken a more conservative stand than the White House. As a representative of an auto-manufacturing state, he voted against using any of the highway trust funds to pay for mass transit. "If Jerry saw a hungry child, he would give...
Death Wish starts out as if it were going to make extraordinary demands on the audience's ability to accept and sustain a fantasy. Right off, one is asked to believe that Charles Bronson, who usually acts as if he has trouble writing his own name, is an engineer of such skill and imagination that he can one-two-three redesign a housing development so that its aesthetic merits can be retained even as a soaring cost factor is brought into line. Soon enough, however, the film settles down to real business. This is not to make any demands...
...hard to fault Joanne Hamlin, the director's wife, for her perforance in Happy Days because she manages to sustain her character in the most difficult circumstances. The role of Winnie is enormously difficult, but Hamlin carries it off with extraordinary finesse. Still, Hamlin's rendition of Winnie's lines comes in a rather sing-songey fashion, and this only detracts from the seriousness of the character. Winnie, though partially a comic personage, is no buffoon and her plight deserves more sympathy than this production gives...