Word: attempted
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...clubs current attempt for varsity status is one attempt to change its sing-song, beer-guzzling, no-holds-barred image...
...just another round of deplorable abuses. By combining unprecedented censorship with Gestapo-like mass arrests, the white regime has demonstrated its determination to deny reality--to isolate South African whites from the war raging around them and to hide that struggle from the world. But in the attempt to preempt what a government spokesman termed the "revolutionary onslaught" of resistance groups, the white regime is forcing the country down the path to precisely such a violent and catastrophic revolution...
...plan misfired (as did a second-half half-hearted attempt to revive the gift), but Harvard didn't, as the Crimson nailed its first seven shots from the floor...
...HAVE REAGAN attempt to reprise Nixon's role, therefore, is like asking Morgan Fairchild to undertake Lady Macbeth. The goal of any serious dramatic production--and for the first time, Reagan's audience is forced to be serious--is to achieve some kind of emotional catharsis. In witnessing the tragic fall of the protagonist, the audience can hope to achieve not only an understanding of the ephemeral nature of man's fortune, but also a sense of well-being based on the fact that, whatever their problems, they are not suffering like the poor schmuck on the screen...
...autobiographer, Kirkland tends to blame others for her mistakes, dwelling on the injustices of ballet without fully exploring her own role in her fate. But as a commentator, Kirkland is at her best, exposing the many indignities faced by the dancer in an attempt to be an artist. The book is an insightful look at the vulnerability of the creative temperment, and the exploitation and pain which can result...