Word: sustaining
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...production is not bad; McNeal plays a pretty good Clay and the tech works well to reflect the intense nature of the play. Cohen is a problem; without her strong character it is difficult to sustain the dialogue and action of the play. But the essential problem is that it's not great, which is disappointing considering Dutchman's potential...
Helen too has an overreaching plan, to leave Phil and open an upscale restaurant of her own. As she and Harry head toward failure, they also approach, but never attain, something like tragic status. As characters they are not complicated or resonant enough to sustain that kind of grandeur...
...lamely so -- you begin to wonder why, setting aside the opportunities for superficial flash offered to De Niro, anyone bothered with this enterprise, which is, in fact, a remake of a middling 1950 noir drama. It probably would have required the dark glamour of period conventions and convictions to sustain it. Director Irwin Winkler succeeds mainly in conveying his own edginess, and screenwriter Richard Price cannot seem to get his people grounded either in reality or in a metaphorically persuasive fictional realm. The result is a nervous and very distancing movie...
Quayle's campaign speeches stress his active role in the Bush Administration. His case is stronger than his lightweight reputation would suggest. As Bush's main contact with Congress, he was crucial in getting Congress to sustain 35 of Bush's 36 vetoes. In foreign trade issues -- especially where Latin America and the Far East are concerned -- Quayle has been quietly effective in promoting U.S. commercial interests. He has played a key role in helping revive NASA and the space program...
...nature's diversity, are affected by human activities in countless ways. Frogs, for example, are gradually disappearing around the world, perhaps because airborne pollutants are destroying their eggs. The crucial question is whether humankind can afford to exterminate large numbers of other species without ruining the ecosystems that also sustain...