"For those who have left one place for another," she says, "fueled by choice or trauma, sustaining the vulnerable threads to homeland is at once beautiful, fraught, disruptive, and ever-evolving".
The cast list gives an idea of the quality of television drama in those days, but Stott was unable to sustain that thread of work into the encroaching demands of soap series and the changing TV market, although he did write briefly for Brookside, on Channel 4, and Heartbeat, on Yorkshire Television, and he provided 30 episodes of Granada's The Practice in 1985.
Relishable performances include Karina Fernandez's priceless cameo as a flamenco teacher; Kate O'Flynn and Caroline Martin as Poppy's contrasting sisters; and, sustaining a beautifully developed thread of level-headedness, Alexis Zegerman as Poppy's flatmate Zoe, surely the most substantial best-buddy role ever seen in cinema.
The movie insists — repeatedly and didactically — that a thread of creative, sustaining possibility winds its way through all human history, glimmering even in its darkest hours.
Such a disciplined, abstract approach – Tristan and Isolde sing their love duet at least five metres apart – demands that the music sustain the dramatic thread.
There were breathtaking moments, as when, early in the second movement, the violins sustained the merest thread of sound under the choral lines "They honor the sacred place,/The holy sanctuary of love".
Thus there's no Polish act, and no scene in Kromy Forest, and some characters, such as David Butt Philip's strikingly well sung Grigory, aka the False Dmitry, remain sketchily defined, but in this notoriously unfocused masterpiece Jones still manages to sustain the dramatic thread with remarkable assurance.
That same ability to sustain the smallest thread of pianissimo cast a chilling spell when, in "Die liebe Farbe", he shrouded his voice to sing of death while the superb Helmut Deutsch kept the millwheel turning in his beautifully sensitive, many-coloured accompaniment.
1. Focusing on continuity At the very beginning of the remodeling project, I decided that continuity achieved by threading spaces together helps generate sustaining and uplifting energy.
A lasting memory of the men's tournament will surely be Kevin Ware cutting down the final threads Monday night for the Louisville players he inspired after sustaining a gruesome leg injury against Duke.
