Word: sustaining
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...slaughtered, halting Kiss and killing its sponsor, a fledgling agency set up to nurture musicals. Prince now says, "Irony of ironies, the fiasco may have helped. The show's political consciousness is much better suited to this moment." But to achieve a sparkling debut, Kiss has already had to sustain its own epic comeback...
...eight-ton tyrannosaur must have slowed down even more, and may even have reverted to a solitary life-style. Says Brett-Surman: "They certainly wouldn't have turned somersaults across the landscape." As for the giant herbivores, which would have required hundreds of pounds of vegetation a day to sustain their enormous bulk, they might have had their own unique metabolism fueled by the heat given off by nonstop digestion...
...professions exist today which sustain codes, laws, or oaths that prevent members from engaging in personal relationships of any nature. Doctor's Hippocratic Oath, obliges them to refrain from encounters with their patients. But doctors promise to separate business from pleasure as a universal rule. If the problem of student-teacher relations is so pronounced, then why have individual universities been left to formulate their own policies? Except for clergy required to take vows of chastity, sexual restraint and career occupation rarely coincide. For most jobs, there's no reason that they should...
...strings, though overly soft in the allegro, carried through their crescendos and decrescendos with professional ease. Chang and LaFitte offered particularly strong performances, but Soule seemed to fade in and out of the solo quartet and Gianguilo made some rather audible mistakes, failing in four different spots to sustain the end of his solo the full length of the note. The final movement suffered from the meek entry of the strings and an overquick temp. But the allegro assai redeemed the piece, with oboe, flute, and violin soloists maintaining a whispering rapport...
From the glossy surface of Indiana's prose, small but powerfully political quips often burst forth. However, these moments do little to sustain the overall ho-hum drama which is meant to propel the novel. It reads as if a Dynasty script meets "Miami Vice" in Colombia followed by the same Dynasty script meeting. "The Living End" in Germany. And this is all retold, often second-hand, by a not so reliable narrator in New York sometime later. Oh, and a serial killer lurks about the pages. This allusion seems so cliche it's forgettable, but so irritatingly contrived that...