Word: attempt
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...People's Daily, the official newspaper of the Communist Party, published an overview of the previous two weeks of protests in an apparent attempt to pacify angry students...
First, Mr. Frewing and Mr. Hornstein introduced their resolution to the Undergraduate Council as a legitimate attempt to support those who participate in ROTC. The proposal was not an attempt to create a showdown over homosexual rights. I am disheartened that some people seem determined to turn this issue into a conflict between supporters of ROTC and supporters of the gay and lesbian community. The coverage of this issue so far seems to equate ROTC with homophobia. Please do not confuse the policies of the United States government and the senior military leadership with the personal convictions of those...
...does the film offer the easy pleasures of a conventional movie bio. Earl Mac Rauch's script mixes fantasy and fact in an ambitious, if muddled, attempt at surrealistic psychodrama. In the opening scene, the dead Belushi (played by newcomer Michael Chiklis) wakes up in a morgue, escapes in a gown resembling the toga he wore in Animal House and meets a guardian angel in the guise of a taxi driver (Ray Sharkey). Their conversations are intermingled with time- jumbled flashbacks of Belushi's life, snippets of his comedy material and scenes of Woodward pursuing the story...
...began circulating by fax machine almost at once. At Texas A&M, chemists reported they had measured between 60% and 80% more heat energy coming out of the experiment than had gone in. But they had to try the experiment five times before it worked. They did not even attempt to detect any neutrons being given off. And Georgia Tech's effort, patched together with deuterium from a local chemical outfit and palladium ordered from a Chicago precious-metals dealer, had a serious flaw. The neutron counter that indicated fusion was apparently not working properly. Said team leader James Mahaffey...
Brady encircles his outsize subject with equal parts of anecdote and scholarship. He does not attempt the intimate tone of Barbara Leaming's authorized 1983 biography or try for the high-skid finish of Charles Higham's Orson Welles: The Rise and Fall of an American Genius (1985). Citizen Welles covers more ground and digs deeper, revealing an artistic nomad whose life had too many ups, downs and lateral movements to be treated as a sales chart. The author is a great admirer, crediting Welles as an originator of the film noir genre and a technical pioneer whose influence...