Word: attempted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...operative principle of contemporary experience, in Cunningham's view, is chance juxtaposition. The application of chance to choreographic presentation has been one of the most controversial, and misunderstood, aspects of Cunningham's work; but for him, this represents no mere whim for the outrageous but an honest attempt to reintegrate art and life. In Cunningham's dance, as in modern life, the subjective ordering of individual experience replaces objective structure and continuity...
...have seen little outside Harvard are strongly molded by their surroundings, and their parents must make special efforts to provide as "normal" an environment as possible for them. Because each family experience is unique, the four families described below represent only a sampling of lifestyles, rather than an attempt to draw conclusions...
Perhaps the most upsetting thing about the Kennedy School's selection of Connally is that it evidences a willful disregard on the selection committee's part of the realities of American politics. Connally has spent the past year traveling around the country, making speeches in an attempt to revive the ailing Republican Party and, not incidentally, to establish himself as a presidential candidate in 1980. The Pollak honorarium, coming only a year after Connally's appointment as a visiting fellow of the Institute of Politics, will only serve to strengthen his ties to Harvard, and thus enhance his national stature...
...projects, King is far the better. Written and directed by the pious Abby Mann (Judgment at Nuremberg, Ship of Fools), it makes a decent attempt to explain the meaning of a remarkable man's life. Audiences too young to remember the civil rights movement of the '50s and '60s may find King a revelation. The struggles of Montgomery and Birmingham, of Selma and Chicago are all re-enacted with corrosive force. So, too, are the many efforts to block King's progress, whether by thugs or Southern sheriffs or J. Edgar Hoover. Against this tumultuous background...
Otis and Marlena vacation in Miami, looking for pleasure and relaxation. But it's a lie: their attempt is hollow...