Word: attempted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Tampa would only shrug his shoulders when asked by reporters for an explanation of his antigovernment activities in Cuba. The third prisoner, Everett Jackson, 39, of Los Angeles, insisted that he had been operating as a freelance journalist when he parachuted from a plane into Cuba in an attempt to photograph Soviet missile silos...
Speaking on the White House lawn, Mubarak denounced the policy change as a "rash" attempt to "usurp the rights of Palestinian people in their country and on their land." A day later, State Department Spokesman Hodding Carter lambasted the Israeli policy as "contrary to the spirit and intent" of the Camp David accord...
...challenger in that election, the man who finished second in the primary, is State Sen. Joseph F. Timilty. Timilty is convinced that enough anti-White votes exist in Boston to carry him to victory in his third attempt to unseat White...
Although the government eventually gave up its suit when the same information appeared in another publication two weeks ago, the precedent of prior restraint whenever authorities feel the urge to suppress publicly available information has unfortunately been established. Aside from the violence done to the First Amendment, this attempt to reclassify information already in the public domain constitutes retroactive censorship, an ex post facto law, another unwelcome infringement on Constitutional liberties...
...unceasing herky-jerk action of Passion Play hints at Kosinski's attempt to harness to the novel the devices of another medium--television. This is the foremost example of the easy-to-follow, one-character plot ridden with sex and violence. The novel as a popular art form may soon smother in the voluminous fluff of television and cinema. Kosinski senses this and innovatively adopts many of the devices, the timing and pace, of TV and cinema--hence the accessibility of his novels. What's remarkable is that he manages this without in any way compromising his literary integrity...