Word: attempt
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...with Wednesday's show was that Dylan demonstrated too much aggressiveness, emphasizing harsh riffs and a "to-hell-with-you" attitude in nearly every song. When he sang "It Ain't Me Babe," he spat out every word, chopping his verses in such a manner as to confound any attempt by the audience to sing along. In last night's rendition, the chorus of "I Shall Be Released" became a defiant cry rather than a moving affirmation, and Dylan's spitfire version of "Maggie's Farm" emphasized driving anger rather than Iyric comprehension. In other words, you knew...
Imaginative camera work enhances Benedek's comic vision. The camera looks down from a high angle at the Spectors' home preparations for an artificial insemination attempt, lending the couple's futile but exhaustive efforts an air of absurdity. In another scene the camera stays stationary as Linda moves from room to room, rather than following her. With this kind of cinematography, Immediate Family merely observes human foibles rather than draws attention to them...
Three minutes later, Amen passed the ball to senior Nick D'Onofrio, who directed it to classmate David Kramer. However, Kramer's head attempt was blocked by the B.C. defensive corps...
...attempt to infuse troubled inner-city schools with specially trained leaders, the Graduate School of Education this week announced plans for an innovative program designed to produce superintendents for urban school districts...
House Speaker Tom Foley (D-Wash.) said Democrats had not decided on their next move. House Democratic Whip Bill Gray (D-Pa.) said he did not think Democrats would attempt to add similar abortion language again to the same bill...