Word: sustaining
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Little Night Music presents a host of difficult musical numbers. The cast manages most of the solos well, but several of the multi-part songs are unbalanced and difficult to follow. The two- and three-part numbers work better when the entire cast is is involved and can sustain a consistent volume. Every character has at least one difficult solo, so the entire production demands an enormous amount of energy from the cast...
...bayou" jokes begins, ranging from a dinner of medium rare python to a disproportionate propensity for missing teeth. At first, these are gross and funny, but eventually become just gross. Amazingly, Bates and Sandler manage to keep the unoriginal material quite hilarious; but even Sandler's comedic appeal cannot sustain the mindless Foxworthy humor. Fortunately, he does get some help from Fairuza Balk as Bobby's horny, buck-toothed and violent, but nonetheless sweet, ex-convict girlfriend. She demonstrates her love for Bobby by redesigning his riding lawnmower into a high-speed vehicle, romantically stealing Lawrence Taylor's Corvette...
...peaceful Muslim majority and the terrorist minority. These passages are obvious (and probably useless) in ways that the rest of the movie is not. But Zwick, who directed Glory, remains good with both massed action and more intensely intimate confrontations, and better still at finding ways to sound and sustain a humane and compassionate note, no matter how bloody the spectacle out of which it arises...
...moderate standard of life is impossible to attain or sustain," he said...
...Harvard is one of a small number of universities that are able to attract leaders in scientific research and provide resources that will enable them to sustain that leadership," he said...