Word: effort
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...despite concerns that the HRDC board doesn't have the expertise to evaluate shows beyond the realm of plays and musicals, they do make an effort to take advantage of board members' past experiences...
...youth." Senate majority leader Trent Lott seemed intent on keeping his earlier vow that gun control legislation would never pass on his watch. He called the renewed push for gun control a typical "knee-jerk reaction" to the shootings and staved off for at least two weeks an effort to have a vote, in the hope that emotions will cool. The House, heavily mortgaged to the gun lobby, has scheduled no bills. House Republican whip Tom DeLay, whose office was the site of the murder of one of the two Capitol guards slain by a crazed gunman last summer, accused...
...belongs both to us and to those we hope to serve. Journalists are pretty good at unearthing the undeep issues. Give us a presidential scandal, even a war, and we can do a fair job of explaining the explicable. But give us the killings at Columbine, and in an effort to cover the possibilities we will miss what people are thinking in their secret chambers--thinking, feeling--about their own loves and hatreds, about the necessity of attentiveness to others, about their own children: about you, Rachel...
...American Century," part one of which opened two weeks ago in New York City, is the biggest curatorial effort by the Whitney Museum of American Art in a long, long while--an ambitious and, for the most part, rewarding show. Its aim is to narrate the story of American art (mostly painting and photography, but some sculpture, design and architecture) over the past 100 years and to make sense--brief sense, inevitably--of the relations between that art and the changing society around...
Limitations on tush space, like any limitations, carry the seeds of political tension. Even in Seattle, which is known as a courteous town, the ferry company's effort to reduce passenger load on Puget Sound commutes apparently provoked a petition that warned against the dangers of "butt police." A commuter told Sanchez that at least passengers hadn't had their backsides measured before being allowed to board. But what if space becomes even scarcer? Someday the prudent immigrant might show up for his citizenship exam not just with his papers in order and his head crammed with facts about...