Word: attempted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Though oil exports last year brought the Shah's government some $22 billion, the cost of pell-mell modernization was high; when the Shah left, Iran owed $7.2 billion to foreign lenders, including an estimated $2.2 billion to U.S. banks. Bankers point out that any attempt by Tehran to renege on those commitments would make the country an international financial pariah...
Jeremiah Gutman of the American Civil Liberties Union called this "impossible constitutionally." In his view the Government simply cannot monitor voluntary private conversations aimed at persuading people to change their beliefs, or attempt to control what religions people adopt. He said that "forced psychotherapy" to attack unwanted belief is "precisely what is going on in the Soviet Union today and precisely what Ted Patrick does on a smaller scale. It is already against...
...assembly delegates said this week they fear a loss of credibility because of controversial elections, and they said they will attempt to pass election reforms to insure more uniform, well-run elections next term...
...which Kim establishes between actor and musical instrument reflects his assimilation and digestion of Beckett's rhetoric: Kim spent two years composing Narratives, finishing in 1975 just in time for the master's 75th birthday. Kim established a precedent for this performance in Exercises en Route, his first successful attempt to set the spoken word to music. In this new form which he calls "Music/Theatre," Kim draws upon the improvizational abilities of the Ariel Music Ensemble...
...carefully shaped and reduplicated by Felton Jarvis, Presley's own producer at RCA. There is also a starring performance that is quite literally phenomenal. Kurt Russell, a former minor-league baseball player who has done most of his acting on TV and in obscure Disney features, does not attempt an Elvis impersonation, although he moves with gymnastic ease and I curves his lip well. Russell plunges deeply into Presley's psyche, bringing all the talent and all the obsession right to the surface. He and Director Carpenter contrive an introduction that eerily sets the tone of the movie...