Word: attempted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Sensible as Dean Archie Epps' report is, it nonetheless smacks of extraordinary naivete in its attempt to define the limits of stereotyping as a creative mode. There are no doubt aesthetic and moral boundaries beyond which stereotyping should not trespass, but it is a violation of viable intellectual values for a bureaucrat to pretend to know precisely where those boundaries...
...that the screen romance ends happily; the film is, on the contrary, an attempt to dissect its failure. But within the context of loss, Allen exhibits an enviable ability to do and say the things the rest of us only dream of. On the simplest level, that means cutting through the polite dishonesty that garbs social interchange. When Annie admits she's not busy either Friday or Saturday night, Allen asks her, "How come you're so popular? What have you got--the plague?" And when they go out for the first time, he requests a kiss smack...
During those years, an attempt at a broad-scale attack on organized crime by the federal strike forces broke down because of internal rivalries. Says William Aronwald, former leader of the strike force in New York: "Cooperation among agencies is the exception rather than the rule." But without joint efforts by law enforcement agencies at all levels of government, Aronwald and other investigators fear, organized crime can never be attacked successfully. He adds: "You've got to be ballsy. You've got to be aggressive. You can't wait until they come to you." A successful assault will probably require...
...Service Co. of two 1.15 million-kilowatt nuclear reactors near Seabrook. Last week they took their protests into the streets. With the precision of a well-trained army, some 2,000 protesters, carrying backpacks and water bottles, occupied the construction site and set up a tent city in an attempt to halt permanently the oft-delayed project...
...novel, Adam Kennedy's The Domino Principle was a thriller of more than usual style, distinguished by a fairly serious attempt to penetrate the mind of the sort of loser who, if properly manipulated, can be turned into a political assassin. Now the book has fallen into the heavy hands of Director Stanley Kramer, and, despite Kennedy's presence at the screenwriter's keyboard, everything that made the book good, popular fiction has somehow been lost...