There was comic genius in the 1995 film The Brady Bunch Movie, which had the brilliant conceit of maintaining the characters' 1970s fashions, behaviour and vocabulary in the 1990s world.
As in the best of the director's work (she also directed indie darling "Your Sister's Sister," a movie that, like this film, had its share of kept secrets), Shelton can play situations for laughs while maintaining the characters' three-dimensional humanity.
Nevertheless, he said, village laws have been effective in maintaining the character of Old Westbury.
David Campos, who represents the Mission on the Board of Supervisors, said that there was a real interest in maintaining the character of the community, particularly in the Mission.
But her careful efforts at maintaining the character's British accent give her delivery a studied quality that undercuts the slangy lyrics and offhand melodies of the songs.
Joining Fordham, they said, would allow Marymount, which has 900 students, to take advantage of the resources of a large institution while maintaining the character of a small liberal arts school.
"I cannot paint the house unless I have approval that the color is in keeping with the historic nature of the village," she said, adding that she has had no problems with those charged with maintaining the character of the Hamptons.
In contemporary property law, servitudes allow people to create stable long-term arrangements for a wide variety of purposes, including shared land uses; maintaining the character of a residential neighbourhood, commercial development, or historic property; and financing infrastructure and common facilities.
His handmade emulsions suspend ingredients that would otherwise separate due to their chemical composition, maintaining the character of the combined flavor.
When creating Groot, MPC realized early on that his eyes would be essential in maintaining the character's human qualities, as his face couldn't move in the way that humans' do.
If British Land were interested in maintaining the character of Norton Folgate, or in providing jobs and homes for the residents of Tower Hamlets, they would be following the Spitalfield Trust's masterplan for the area, one which would cost less, take less time to complete and doesn't involve the wholesale demolition of existing buildings.
