Word: attempting
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Proponents of the game say that recent policies have been just another attempt by the administration to rob students of social opportunities. Yet perhaps instead of putting up posters which invite Quincy residents to "Play it while it's Still Legal," its participants should pause for a moment to consider whether assassin encourages House unity or whether it is simply a symptom of the lack of opportunities for real social interaction within our community...
Size is so important that the prospect of creating a "champion of the European banking sector" prompted Banque Nationale de Paris to attempt to outmaneuver its rivals with a dramatic $37.6 billion offer to buy both Societe Generale and Paribas once their intended merger was announced, further jolting the French markets. If the BNP takeover ever goes through, it will create a bank with nearly $1 trillion in assets--Europe's largest--and give it an edge over the top U.S. bank, Citigroup, which currently has assets of $668.6 billion...
...that acting choice, and in the refusal of director Gillies MacKinnon, working from a script adapted by his brother Billy of a novel by Esther Freud, either to romanticize or trash the hippie past. They permit us to see it for what it was--another silly, doomed, very human attempt to evade responsibility's inescapable embrace...
...last substantial chunk of the movie tails the meanderings of Adam (Scott Wolf) andZack (Jay Mohr), a pair of popular televisionactors, beginning with their attempt to lure Ronnainto a sting operation in exchange for absolutionfrom a previous violation of the law. The setupbecomes secondary as they are propositioned by atruly quirky couple, the cop that arranges thesting (William Fichtner) and his wife (JaneKrakowski( and then discover they share a commonlove interest. This latter revelation brings Adamand Zack back into Ronna's world at the rave,where they find themselves in a new violation ofthe...
...social andhumanistic concerns of real depth and emotivepower. Malcolm Cowley considers Hemingway'sgreatest achievement to be not the short stories,or A Farewell to Arms, but For Whom the BellTolls, the novel that at the Hemingway CentennialConference was looked down upon as a failed ifambitious attempt at broad social criticism, ananomaly in Hemingway. But maybe Cowley,Hemingway's contemporary, understood somethingimportant about Hemingway's social concerns that,by and large, escaped the writer/critics at theCentennial...