Word: sustaining
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...notable is Paul Martignetti (Hans Rilow), who performs one of the most difficult episodes of the play, a masturbation scene during which he lies alone, center-stage, delvering one of Wedekind's most passionate monologues with unsettling honest and emotional force. The rest of the cast energetically support and sustain the play through numerous changes of style and mood...
...News & World Report (circ. 2.1 million), a purchase that will vault him into the major leagues of American journalism. He will be the sole owner of the magazine, a conservative, no-nonsense weekly that emphasizes politics and the economy. Although he assured the staff that he would sustain the tradition that has built a loyal readership, he makes it clear that he bought U.S. News out of a personal desire to be involved. Says he: "I like the magazine's position. But I also like it because it is some thing I can work...
Many Colombians doubt whether the government will be able to sustain its crackdown for very long. They fear that once the state of emergency is lifted, the drug traders will be back in business. However, John Phelps, a U.S. drug-enforcement official in Colombia, believes that if the government's war on drug traffickers continues at its present pace, the mafia's ability to mass produce and distribute narcotics will be crippled. Certainly, President Betancur has much of the population behind his efforts to stamp out the drug trade. A Colombian woman may have best expressed the attitude...
Part of the mental battle for Scott and others will be to sustain a high level of performance at both the Olympic tryouts and the NCAA Championships, in which all three are currently playing...
...takes a special presence, and perhaps an unusual life story, to sustain a one-person show. Lena Home did it for more than a year on Broadway by describing her travails as a black actress confronting Hollywood racism. Peggy Lee closed, five nights after the opening, with her reminiscence about losing stardom and finding religion. Kaye Ballard lasted ten unprofitable weeks off-Broadway this spring with a lively yet sometimes bitter recollection of her decades-long struggle to impress her mother. Compared with them, MacLaine is at a disadvantage: she has little suffering to recall. Indeed, she says...