Word: sustaining
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Aroldingen and Lüders are at the ballet's center. They reach out and try to sustain each other. They walk slowly to gether, they caress, at one point they push at each other as if the energy might connect them. But he withdraws, becomes frantic or engulfed in icy loneliness (all too heavily underscored by a set that looks like an ice floe along which curtains have somehow been hung). In the end he walks slowly into a void. She is left, head bowed, her hand cupping her chin. Both dancers give bold performances. One expects...
...killed a lot of people through flooding and famine. The administration doves were eloquently concerned about the horrified editorials from the new media that such action would bring, but taking out the dikes would have won the war by striking at the heart of the North's ability to sustain the aggression...
...daring thing the director has done, this bleaching out of all the cheap thrills, this dashing of all the hopes one brings to what is, after all, advertised as "a masterpiece of modern horror." Certainly he has asked much of Nicholson, who must sustain attention in a hugely unsympathetic role, and who responds with a brilliantly crazed performance...
...building's three floors, displacing MOMA's permanent collection. "I felt that only with the whole museum could we have an exhibition worthy of Picasso's oeuvre," explains William Rubin, MOMA's director of painting and sculpture. "I don't think there is any other artist whose work could sustain such an exhibition...
Besides the bookstore and a lay healing group, the society offers numerous classes. One week's schedule included parapsychology, Swedish massage, meditation, the seven bodies, esoteric astrology and vibrant earth. One hundred dues-paying members help sustain the Boston group, and there are lodges in 52 nations and two-thirds of the American states, with the international headquarters in south India...