Word: attempting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...FESTIVAL. "Will the Real Norman Mailer Please Stand Up." Sometime novelist (The Naked and the Dead), would-be journalist ("Armies of the Night") and film director (Wild 90), Norman Mailer is alternately described as the greatest living U.S. writer and as a malcontented egomaniac. NET's cameras attempt a portrait of this man of many different faces and moods with film sequences of him at home, acting and directing, and addressing the October peace rally in Washington...
Spread out for almost half a mile along the banks of the Ohio River, the twisted pieces of rusted metal look like the junkman's answer to Lady Bird Johnson's beautification campaign. In fact, the giant junkyard is a painstaking attempt by a new federal agency to re-create the "Silver Bridge" that once connected Kanauga, Ohio, and Point Pleasant, W. Va., and determine why the bridge collapsed last December, carrying 46 people to their deaths in the river's numbing waters. The ugly jigsaw along the Ohio may have been the most visible effort...
Whether the allied force of some 12,000 men would attempt to root out the North Vietnamese gunners dug into the hills above them remained to be seen. But, in any case, the allies are not likely to elect to stay in A Shau, given the weather and the number of men who would be tied down in de fending it. Instead, Operation Delaware aimed to even an old score for the men of the Special Forces who fell there in 1966-and to destroy all the equipment and tools of war the Communists have so painstakingly assembled...
Notable Strides. The reason for the tension was an attempt by the island's six-year-old, predominantly Negro Progressive Labor Party to turn the elections into a bitter racial contest with the ruling United Bermuda Party. The United Bermuda, though biracial, is controlled by the island's businessmen and white Establishment. Like their distant neighbors in the Bahamas, Bermuda's Negroes constitute a majority (63%) of the island's 50,000 people; yet, unlike the Bahamas, Bermuda under the United Bermudians has made notable strides in integrating the island's life...
While hippiedom onstage may last no longer than its cultists, nudity could prove more durable. On-and off-Broadway, this has been the year of naked truth. It reflects the widening moral latitude of U.S. society, and represents the theater's attempt to recover that adult freedom of expression which films have pre-empted in recent years. Sometimes stage nudity is irrelevant, as in Bruce Jay Friedman's Scuba Duba, where a woman, both topless and pendulous, runs purposelessly down a flight of stairs. On the other hand, in The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, it enhances...