Word: attempting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...demonstration, which stayed peaceful all day, contrasted with the occupation attempt at Seabrook earlier in October. There, violence flared when police fired tear gas shells, sprayed mace and shot high pressure fire hoses at demonstrators attempting to storm the fence...
...acting fully matches the wooden level of the screenplay. Why did Jill Clayburgh ever attempt this part? As Erica Benton she was delightful. As a high-powered diva, she's positively grotesque. Those station-wagonned suburban looks don't help and that fabulously skinny body certainly doesn't look appropriate. Who has ever seen or heard an anorexic Joan Sutherland or Beverly Sills? Clayburgh careens about the screen, wildly overacting. Trying so damn hard, Clayburgh becomes positively painful to watch. Matthew Barry reveals some vestiges of talent but when delivering lines like "I must go; she awaits...
...REAL BUSINESS OF AMERICA is, as Calvin Coolidge once said, business, then who needs intellectuals? Breaking Ranks in Norman Podhoretz' attempt to answer this question. In a world where the exclusive concerns of professional politicians are "the distribution of patronage and the administration of the going system," intellectuals, Podhoretz affirms, bear the responsibility of providing us vision and direction. Breaking Ranks is his unabashed celebration of intellectualism...
...first glance, then, Podhoretz might appear politically fickle, switching wings more often than a hockey player. But Breaking Ranks reveals a principled man, one who does not quit believing when it hurts to believe. This man has written a serious autobiography, his candid attempt to understand and then describe his motivations and convictions...
...This is more my form of community involvement than an attempt to start a political career," he says...