Word: sustaining
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Lozano referring to his relationship with a girlfriend. She admits the sexual fantasies are her own dreams but says they were never meant to be shown to Lozano: he broke into her office and stole them, she contends. Far from cutting his life short, Bean-Bayog says she helped sustain him for four years. She believes his death was accidental...
...sort of lost our edge," Pinkerton said. "They kept us pinned down in our end. When you sustain that much pressure on the other team in rugby, you're going to score...
Medical opinion on anencephalic infants (the scientific term for her condition) is unanimous in asserting that they have no possibility of a conscious or subconscious mental life. Their nervous system is not even equipped to sustain basic organ functioning beyond a few days...
Mike Nichols' staging, alas, is too ornate and stately, its pace slowed by pregnant pauses and suspense-draining scene changes. Moreover, the actors seem weirdly naturalistic for so polemic a text. Close never gets crazy enough for the audience to doubt whether she is right, as must happen to sustain tension. Dreyfuss goes right to the expedient, exploitative core of the husband without visiting the needed surface idealism and charm. Hackman's performance does not engage guilt or innocence; it remains stuck at bafflement throughout. These are high-voltage talents giving low-wattage portrayals...
...notes, is not a lack of money: simply reallocating current resources could yield dramatic gains. The higher hurdle is social selfishness. "People resist giving up what they have," he explains. One group that may be called on to sacrifice is the elderly, on whom vast sums are spent to sustain the last few weeks of life. Says Hamburg, who is 66: "People my age need to understand that our well-being depends on the workers of the next generation. Moreover, as a society, we've got to stop concentrating on the short-time horizons -- the next election, budgetary cycle...