Word: attempting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...were parts of us they never touched. We had our honor and our price. There were levels of profundity and nuance they could never fathom. So be calm because I'm not about to unveil our mystique here. Probably I had you scared, woried at least that I would attempt to expose our secret. Fear not, I'm no stoolie. And besides the world isn't eady for the real news about us yet. They'll learn...when the time comes...
Unlike the previous night's incidents, however, no disturbance preceded the police action and very few people actually violated the curfew. The major part of the crowd filled the streets and sidewalks adjacent to the Common near the Charles Street entrance, and did not attempt to enter the Common...
Rosemary's Baby is even more a media-mogul's product: Yamaha cycles, Pall Mall cigarettes, and assorted brand names are shown on TV sets, dropped on tables, and exhibited shamelessly throughout. The exteriors are bleached-out process shots taken on different days with no attempt made to reconcile light changes. When a little action is necessary, Polanski drags out the hand-held camera for some shaky realism (catch Hitchcock filming violence with a hand-held camera!); and repeatedly, Polanski substitutes tight close-ups for style. If nothing else, Rosemary's Baby is ugly--aesthetically derelict, the groping...
...facts of life obviously do not scare the gifted Iowa-born Robert Coover. In his second novel, he employs precisely these concepts and what's more, swings for the fences. He does not quite make it, but he deserves at least an extra-base hit for an excellent attempt...
...Lowry died in England at 47 after one of his legendary drinking bouts. The coroner's euphemism-"misadventure"-seemed curiously apt. Yet Lowry's struggle with his demons (including a suicide attempt in 1946) had been more productive than was generally known. Among three unfinished novels, six or seven unpublished stories and hundreds of poems, he left 705 pages of typescript, which Lowry's second wife, Margerie Bonner Lowry. and Editor Douglas Day have now wrestled into book form...