Word: sustainers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...case, Mintoff is not likely to go so far as to kick the British out, since 3,000 Maltese employed at the base would immediately lose their jobs. That is a blow the poor and crowded (pop. 320,000) country could hardly sustain. Last week, when Mintoff canceled the Sixth Fleet visit, there was sorrow among the island's shopkeepers and the girls of "The Gut," the red-light district. According to one estimate, Malta lost $360,000 by keeping the sailors away...
...aggression, the two human characteristics most deeply suppressed by the Confucian ethic. "The more one hates the old society," Mao reasoned, "the more one will love the party and the new society." Notes Solomon: "Mao believes the intense sentiment of aggression is the only force powerful enough to sustain the involvement of China's peasants and workers in the tasks of social revolution...
Emile Zola described Les Halles as "the belly of Paris," and nobody ever coined a better phrase for the sprawling wholesale market on the Right Bank where for 800 years have flowed the meat, fowl, vegetables, dairy products, herbs, roots, fish, cheese and even flowers necessary to sustain a city of gourmets. Sadly, Paris inevitably outgrew its inefficient and costly belly; two years ago, most operations were moved to a shiny new complex at Rungis near Orly Airport. That move left the problem of what to do with a dozen huge cast-iron-and-glass pavilions that made...
...character is never adequately probed, and there is an uncomfortable number of genre cliches, including a hoked-up terror-in-the-last-reel episode that lacks both terror and surprise. Worse, the sentimental fadeout runs completely contrary to the strenuously realistic tone the film has struggled to sustain...
...seems to be after a kind of existential melodrama: the basketball player frozen by his own spiritual malaise, with his roommate, the campus radical who goes mad in the last reel, representing the inevitable result of purposeful action in an insane world. But the film is too incoherent to sustain such interpretations. The action sways sloppily between the ballplayer and the radical, straddling an unwieldy subplot concerning the ballplayer's romance with a bitchy, nymphy faculty wife...