Word: attempted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...last year, offering the latest twist in the continuing campaign against Madame Mao. Three of the Chairman's physicians charged that when the ailing Mao was sleeping in his sickroom, Chiang Ch'ing would yell at him, brandishing documents under his nose. Then she made her first attempt with an improbable blunt instrument. This was a high-wattage lamp that she cunningly placed on Mao's bedside table. Though "in dread of heat," he survived. Then Chiang Ch'ing, her Maocidal mania unabated, burst last September into her husband's sickroom. Taking advantage...
...much immediate help in creating new jobs. Moreover, the stimulus would enter the economy a year or two from now, when it could be inflationary. The Administration did try to mollify business critics who had complained that the original program offered no incentive for more investment, but its attempt failed; businessmen protest that a 12% credit is simply not big enough...
Images of abused women may soon be balanced by images of abused men. Loren Miles, creator of the Cheeks ad, has noticed that the company's women's slacks are selling faster than its men's slacks. Perhaps in an attempt to cash in on male masochistic feelings, he is planning a new campaign showing women abusing men. Says Miles: "We haven't quite worked it out yet, but the woman might be slapping the guy or throwing a cocktail in his face. I don't think women deserve to be beaten any more than...
...Late Show represents by far the most intelligent and engaging attempt at reincarnation so far. Writer-Director Benton (coauthor of the script for Bonnie and Clyde) has imagined a Philip Marlowe type named Ira Wells (Art Carney), who has outlived his day. He is discovered existing in a rented room on Social Security, watching old movies on TV while his attempt at an autobiography languishes in the typewriter, just one paragraph written. Then his old partner (played by Howard Duff, who was Sam Spade on the radio in the old days) arrives gut-shot at his door, dies...
...offer of only part-time employment to Gallagher might also represent "an attempt to downgrade her status" in response to a grievance Gallagher filed against the University with the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) last spring, William F. Kuntz, a third-year law student and Eliot House resident tutor who acted as Gallagher's agent at the MESD hearing, said yesterday...