Word: sustainibility
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...play within a play, only the player doesn't know he's in it. That's a beguiling idea for a Saturday Night Live skit or one of David Ives' miniature metaphysical farces. But can such a notion sustain a full-length film (even one that clocks in at a svelte 102 minutes)? And will the film satisfy the mass audience's interest in what is, after all, a Jim Carrey Summer Movie...
That left Christman in a bind. "The annulment meant there was no marriage," he says. Army lawyers told him to abandon his efforts to expel the couple. "Since, following the annulment, no marriage ever existed legally," he says, "we felt strongly we couldn't sustain the separation." Army officials say the two were punished, short of expulsion, although they decline to offer details or identify the couple. Through an Army spokesman, the pair declined to be interviewed...
...impossible to sustain the attention of 90people," Stewart says. "Such a large councilcreates a general atmosphere of apathy. A smallercouncil has more of a role for everyone...
...biggest affirmative-action fights anywhere in the nation, the University of California board of regents banned race as a factor in admitting this year's class. Fearing a sizable drop in minority enrollment, some supporters of the new plan hoped that the redesigned admissions criteria would sustain campus diversity, without taking account of race per se, after the ban went into effect...
Americans visiting Australia--and quite a few do these days--sometimes come with expectations of finding a "last frontier" inhabited by Crocodile Dundee look-alike. A carefully framed tourist schedule can, up to a point, sustain the illusion, but a few days in Sydney or Melbourne will soon out you right. At first you might be struck by a sense of familiarity--what might be called the McDonald's syndrome--but Australia, however receptive it has been to America influences, is a very different society with a different history...