Word: attempt
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...tribulations of adolescent uprooting and the love-hate mother-daughter relationship? That's exactly what we get. The soundtrack includes a smattering of love and/or loss songs, featuring Sarah McLachlan, Lisa Loeb and Carly Simon (who, fittingly, is joined by her daughter in singing "Amity," an ill-conceived attempt at marrying folk, pop, a pinch of country and maybe a little blues). Loeb's "I Wish" and McLachlan's "Ice Cream" leave us wondering if the producers could have chosen something just a little more mainstream. Bif Naked jumps into the jumble with "Chotee," which, refreshingly, has a beat that...
...That it is a film like no other. It is a very rich movie, and you'll see things that you'll have seen nowhere else, representations that you will not come across in any other movie. That is something that Harmony and the Dogme movement strive for. They attempt to make something genuinely...
...also by their all-too-human indulgence in the pleasures of civilized life--grapes in the winter, lapdances and such. But this is not to say that Egan's role was carried on the shoulders of another. Throughout the play, Egan remains the most believable. In spite of the attempt to detract from the religious overtones, it would be difficult to not symphatize with Dr. Faustus in his final attempt for redemption. Here, director McClelland '02 divvied up Faustus's last soliloquy to the cast who in some literal and figurative sense stole Fautus's final plea for God. Equally...
...This is close to what actually happened, for while her collection of short stories, Flying Leap, received critical acclaim, If I Told You Once lacks the candor, unexpected plots and zany characterizations of her first work. Budnitz's new book emerges as a poorly conceived attempt to weave together mysticism and dramatic human relationships, taking reckless stylistic risks in the process...
...Radar data released by the NTSB late Wednesday showed that EgyptAir Flight 990 plunged precipitously at nearly the speed of sound for 16,000 feet, but then climbed about a mile - and possibly began breaking up in midair - before falling into the ocean. That might suggest a last-ditch attempt by the crew to gain control of the stricken craft, which could have broken up under structural stress if the pilot had attempted to pull too quickly out of a 700-mph dive. But the cause of that initial dive - like everything else associated with Flight 990's final moments...