Word: sustaining
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...chorus, made up of the only graduates in the cast, offers a fine complement to the show's great leads. The choreography of the opening and the pirate scene during Isabella's first aria are excellent. But too often members gesturing seemed vapid, aimless and irrelevant. This inability to sustain convincing activity behind the leads greatly hurts an otherwise good performance...
Bosnia is more than a foreign policy problem. Despite sympathy for the Bosnians, Americans do not support intervention strong enough to make a real difference. To sustain intervention for the years it will take to stabilize the situation would require Clinton to spend scarce political capital that he prefers to save for domestic economic renewal. Clinton may have adopted the airdrop plan as a minimal gesture, hoping to avoid more serious responsibility. Yet he will have to be serious, sooner or later, if he hopes to stop Serbian aggression--and address this widening danger to European security...
...showed in last year's Europa, Europa, she also has a way of administering jolts from the blue that usefully subvert our narrative and moral expectations. The value of this bleak film, which says that the family, like any other institution, requires agreed-upon fictions to sustain itself, derives from that talent...
...continuum of blind appetite, expressed in rhythmical line. Here, the long Rococo tradition in French art of painting the lower classes as nifty milkmaids or idealized swains gets its coup de grace. Not all of Daumier's drawings have the fierceness of this one (how could any artist sustain it?), but they do share, in varying degrees, its essential spontaneity. His figures always seem to be going somewhere, doing something, and to be conceived in the active rather than the passive voice...
...chorus for Sperry's production was another saving grace. Consistently excellent, they showed stamina the leads lacked. The resilience of their voices and their ability to sustain convincing activity behind the leads gave a needed boost to the show. Although their choreography was at times off, it seemed more a problem of direction than timing...