Word: effort
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Proctor says she doesn't make an effort tomonitor mail, but that it's inevitable that aftermonths of sorting she began to note what peoplereceive, especially those thin or bulky envelopesthat arrive from graduate schools in the Spring...
...effort to rescue the fund and ensure the stability of an economic market that would be greatly affected by its collapse and to calm anxious creditors, the Federal Reserve Bank of New York intervened to organize a rescue of LTCM...
...theme parks and tacky gifts, Universal Studios has indicated a return to its film production roots with the re-release of Orson Welles' Touch of Evil. Perfectly timed to debut at the Silver Anniversary of the Telluride Film Festival--incidentally a festival founded by a film archivist--the restoration effort presumably targets our recent resurgence of interest in Americana by restoring a figure, much maligned in his time, to his much deserved position of authority...
After seeing the original cut only once, Orson Welles wrote a 58-page "memo" to Universal Studios head Edward Muhl detailing the mauling the studio had done to his film. Buried for 40years, the "newly-discovered" memo provided the basis for the restoration effort, now the fourth incarnation of the film. Originally 95 minutes, Touch of Evil now runs for 111 minutes, three more than the previous version. In addition to eliminating several scenes added by the studio, the current version restores originally cut footage and re-edits several scenes for a total of about 50 changes in the film...
...what Universal Studios hopeswill be an on-going series of classic films fromour library, organized by genre or director orstar, which will enable audiences to enjoy atheatrical moviegoing experience the wayfilmmakers intended." There's some hope left. Butbefore we get too excited and lose sight of whythe restoration effort had to occur in the firstplace, just remember what Welles had to say abouthis troubles: I'm not bitter about Hollywood'streatment of me, but over its treatment ofGriffith, von Sternberg, Von Stroheim, BusterKeaton and a hundred others...