Word: attempted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...past. He enters familiar ground: "The street, the house where I had lived, seemed blunt, modest in scale, simple; this deceptive simplicity composed their precious, mystical secret, the conviction of whose existence I had parlayed into a career, a message to sustain a writer book after book." His first attempts to put this secret into words were, he gently suggests, sometimes misunderstood: "My own style seemed to me a groping and elemental attempt to approximate the complexity of envisioned phenomena and it surprised me to have it called luxuriant and self-indulgent; self-indulgent, surely, is exactly what it wasn...
...goaltender came up big on a round-the-back-of-the-net attempt by Murray and stuffed three consecutive Dave Witherell shots on the power play, but the Saints still managed to slip two goals past...
...audience's discomfort may have been the theater space itself. The Kronauer Space, essentially a glorified basement space in Adams House, is not exactly what one would call a room with a view. The stage is set in one corner of the basement, and director Jackie Sloan makes no attempt to hide the humble surroundings. Decorated with rummage sale-like furniture, the set does not appear different from any of the other rooms in the Adams basement...
...attempt to stand back and review whether the Core is accomplishing what it was supposed to do and how well it is doing it," says Lewis...
...Chalkhills and Children" also achieves a meditative tone in a slow, heavy journey over a dream landscape which makes a statement about the danger of fame. Moulding's attempt at thoughtfulness, however, falls flat in "Cynical Days," a song resembling a pre-teen poem of depression: "Another see-through scheme, people are shallow. The dark night's closing in, my dark thoughts follow." By forcing Partridge's voice to assume a lilting tone, "Cynical Days" leans more toward the laughable than the depressing...