Word: attempted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Roland Tec's music, composed for this production, tends to work against the play's attempt to evoke '20s Chicago. Though jazzy, it sounds too much like '40s bebop. The scat singing between scenes is clearly not spontaneous. Not that Tec's music should sound like frequent Brecht collaborator Kurt Weill's, but it adds little and even detracts from the atmosphere...
...attempt to halt the declining number of Blacks and Hispanics entering high-level management positions, two national business groups will sponsor a conference in Boston tomorrow aimed at increasing the number of minority students earning MBA degrees...
Simultaneously, they found an issue of greater attractiveness: the attempt unionize Harvard's clerical and techinical workers...
During the hour-long speech, Piven made several references not only to the current Harvard-Radcliffe Clerical and Technical Workers attempt to unionize but also to the Tent City of homeless people at M.I.T. A representative of the Tent City, where 20 homeless people are currently living, asked Piven to address the group. She declined, citing a prior commitment...
...first time Janowitz has failed to deliver the goods. She won much publicity and praise for her first book, Slaves of New York, and Cannibal clearly is a hastily written attempt to capitalize on her sudden fame. The success of Slaves, though, was undeserved. That book, too, didn't have much interesting to say about its clever premise, namely that the cost and shortage of housing in New York City is forcing many young, single women into dependent relationships with older men who own their own apartments. Hence, readers were treated to endless, repetitious variations on the theme that these...