Word: sustaining
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...vanity and egomania, and a little misleading. He is actually Hollywood's softest, most self-effacing romantic romantic actor. Even playing macho-tough, as in Bonnie and Clyde or McCabe and Mrs. Miller, he's careful to show the boyish vulnerability underneath. Small-scale and unaggressive, he can't sustain a picture alone, so he surrounds himself with high-voltage actors and situations, and he counts on the audience to look to him for relief. In John Reed, Beatty found a figure ideally suited to his own quiet narcissism--a modern saint, political innocent and martyr. And, rounding the character...
...third straight game on the Crimson's current four-game losing streak--the longest since the 1979-80 season--Harvard failed to sustain an impressive late comeback drive, squandering several chances to put the game away after recovering from a several point deficit early in the second half...
...Darlene was making a planned effort to go out fast and sustain the pace," Babington said...
...Urologist Alvaro Morales and a team of researchers have conducted a study of yohimbine's effect on 23 men with impotence related to physical problems, like diabetes. The men were given laboratory-synthesized yohimbine daily for eight to ten weeks. Ten improved, with six once again able to sustain erection and reach orgasm. The drug unexpectedly also relieves some of the numbness and prickling in the legs that frequently afflict diabetics. Unpleasant side effects were limited to temporary dizziness or gastrointestinal upset. The Canadian team is now beginning a two-year study of yohimbine vs. placebo...
...soon as the plot develops beyond this point, Porter and his cast lose control over it. Confronted with the need to establish real contact between characters, create atmosphere, or sustain a joke beyond its original gag, nearly all the leading actors falter. In an early courting scene LaVergne and Jamerson stand together uncomfortably, tossing ambiguous comments back and forth, devoid of mood or any apparent emotional contact. Later the ecstatic Lutiebelle launches into "I Got Love," a song affirming her brand-new confidence, without having evinced even the subtlest change in bearing...