Word: effort
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Although the world-renowned guru of corporate management was in the neighborhood to discuss the Initiative for a Competitive Inner City (ICIC), his effort to rebuild troubled urban areas, the local audience greeted with skepticism the erudite scholar who seemed to have all the answers...
Most ICIC staff members believe cultural foibles are not surprising for a pioneering effort to address the needs of the inner city...
...stated purpose of HIS, as explained in the Unofficial Guide, speaks directly to this need: they organize daily prayers, multicultural dinners, scholar's lectures, sports activities, Ramadan iftars (break fasts), even a bimonthly newsletter. Each activity adds to a sense of community. And a great deal of effort is devoted to promoting interaction through gatherings of all shapes and sizes. However, the importance of interaction is easy for a religious organization to forget; it was exactly the casual interaction that was lacking from my HIS experience...
Hale was barraged with reporters' queries, and in an effort to calm the waters, he investigated Shramek's photograph and determined that the "object" in it was an ordinary eighth-magnitude star. After posting his conclusions on the Net, Hale became the target of a flood of hate E-mail, much of it accusing him of being part of a conspiracy to suppress the true nature of Hale-Bopp...
Psychopathia Sexualis, the latest off-Broadway effort from John Patrick Shanley (Danny and the Deep Blue Sea, Four Dogs and a Bone), is, unfortunately, a model of what playwrights should avoid. It's a slim but labored farce about a young man (Andrew McCarthy) who can't make love without having his father's socks around and the psychiatrist (Edward Herrmann) who has taken them away. The stale shrink jokes wouldn't pass muster on an average episode of Seinfeld, not to mention Shanley's own better work, like his flavorful screenplay for Moonstruck. What Hollywood gave Shanley was discipline...