Word: sustainers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...added that the Portuguese alone would not have been able to sustain their anti-liberation efforts for more than two or three years were it not for "assistance from Western powers and the increasing involvement of American corporations in Angola...
...both a great achievement and, perhaps, a creatively suicidal move for Kubrick. Five years of technological horse-play is enough for many engineers, let alone film directors. Kubrick picked perhaps the only subject which could sustain such extended self-conscious artistry; for once the medium was the message, and by following the shifts of shapes and the repetition of frames and camera movements, you experienced the space flight growth of non-Newtonian physics and non-Euclidean geometry. Despite Kubrick's avowed Platonism, his contention that man is moving away from a biological condition, the guts of the film remained subversively...
...concert series from which their third album was taken, the number fails to reach the near-perfection which characterized the long jams of the previous album. The beginning and end of the song are brilliant expositions of dual guitar work, but the intervening bass, drum, and organ solos cannot sustain the musical intensity of Allman and Betts's guitars...
Harvard has a substantial edge on paper, but there are several factors which should hold the score down, if not produce an upset. Harvard would like a convincing win to sustain its post-losing streak recovery, but Brown must win to have a shot at making the ECAC playoffs...
Almost the whole book is dialogue, and it is truly a bravura performance. Higgins is a master of the colorful street language heard around Boston. Throughout the novel, without quaintness or self-parody, he is able to sustain long arias of criminal shoptalk. The reason is that he never merely transcribes. Like Salinger and Raymond Chandler, his ear is really for mental processes. All Eddie's friends use the same idiom, but it is always easy to know which one is talking...