Word: effort
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Jonathan was among the most effectiveproponents of a worldwide effort to prevent AIDS,"said Fineberg, "explaining over and over that AIDSwas everyone's problem and that the epidemic wouldnot be truly solved anywhere until it was solvedeverywhere...
...Stern, who was merciless to the basketballer while Johnson had a talk show, got slapped with the most dire content warning (TV-MA), lower national Nielsen ratings than a nonlive version of rival Saturday Night Live and a DD cup's worth of critical bile for his debut network effort. The show, which featured Stern abusing a female body builder and several guests who were hoping to win free cosmetic surgery, was called "the smelly underpants of late-night television" by the L.A. Times, "the dregs of the dregs" by the Washington Post and, probably most hurtful of all, considering...
...count on to open a picture. Worse, it follows by a mere two years another movie about its protagonist, the legendary distance runner Steve Prefontaine, which flopped miserably. Without Limits, which is a very good movie, will require a stroke of marketing genius to succeed. Or an unusual effort at understanding--a willingness by the audience to set aside generic expectations and engage the movie on its own terms...
...This effort has to begin with the recognition that this is only nominally a sports movie. Yes, there was a time, more than a quarter-century ago, when Prefontaine held the American record in every distance from 2,000 to 10,000 m, when his bold front-running style and his self-dramatizing manner made him running's version of a rock star. And, yes, Towne conveys the exhilaration and exhaustion of high-level competition with unprecedented realism and intimacy...
...have won at the next Olympics, we'll never know. What we do know is that Towne, a man of ruefully romantic temperament, has found a soulmate in Steve Prefontaine. In an article he once wrote, Towne made an implicit analogy between writing and running. Both involve a rebellious effort to exceed the limits God places on your talent; both demand, as you settle into the starting blocks, an acceptance of whatever fate he whimsically decrees. One hopes that Without Limits, seemingly boxed in at the start, breaks free and scores an upset that is, yes, "purifying and thrilling...