Word: attempted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...carries out this scheme almost too subtly, turning the City of Nets into a collection of pseudo movie sets, illuminated by camera lights. "I haven't made the references to Los Angeles too explicit, because that demythologizes it. I set Mahagonny in a film studio, but there is no attempt & to have real scenery. I don't press too hard...
East Germany responded to the crisis with maximal rhetoric and minimal action. It trained much of the heat on West Germany, charging it with an "attempt to destabilize" East Germany. But the East German media also raged against Hungary, accusing it of "trading human lives for pieces of silver," a pointed suggestion that Hungary had swapped the refugees for hard West German currency. Two days after the border was thrown open, East Germany charged that Hungary was in "clear violation of legal treaties" and demanded that it stop letting the refugees through. Budapest angrily dismissed the charges and asserted that...
Still, it is an interesting and provocative set of considerations which Fabricating Lives offers. Just as the vast panorama of American experience represented in the lives of autobiographers traces at once a personal--and a societal--odyssey, so does the book attempt a scope of analysis impressive only for the brashness...
...Airplanes on the Roof is the story of a mentally ill woman's attempt to reconcile her own view of the world--rife with dissolving buildings, alien super-intelligence, and time travel--with the everyday world society is attempting to impose upon her. We sympathize with "M" (Betsy Aidem), as she conjures up our own fears of losing the ability to trust our senses and expresses our own desires to be accepted by society without having to compromise with...
...emotional wanderings, M is more like us than we wish to accept. In a final, passionate attempt to synthesize her internal world with the external world she is not quite ready to believe in, she declares that she needs someone to understand her, to guide her through her mental morass. She calls out in a desperate, plaintive voice, "We all hope, looking into the eyes of another, to find an answer...