Word: effortful
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Despite the unevenness of its effort, the Crimson certainly was pleased with the end result, especially considering the absence of Kelly, who is out indefinitely with a broken hand. The Crimson was able to compensate for the loss of its leader, thanks, in part, to some spirited play by Steffa, who collected a goal and an assist on the afternoon...
...worried about a potential leadership vacuum in the black arts community in the future, according to the OFA, so he requested the office's help in continuing the effort to support black arts on campus...
What gives the scandals political resonance here is the way they refract the shock that our own effort to stage-manage Russia's successful transformation might have failed. The expectation of quick and miraculous success was naive when applied to a country with a scant history of capitalism, no experience with democracy, and no tradition of the rule of law. Whatever Washington did was a crapshoot. Russians have always cheated the system to survive or thrive, first the Czars, then the Party, now the elected government. Men who were once at home in the old regime hold power...
...Women was exiled a few blocks north to the Museum of Modern Art in 1975, when the Music Hall was in such a state of desuetude that at some performances less than 10% of the seats in the immense auditorium were filled. Hardy had a potent ally in his effort to yank the Davis painting back from MOMA. Jerry I. Speyer, the manager and co-owner of Rockefeller Center, is vice chairman of the museum's board...
...Zwick and Marshall Herskovitz are back. Three times before--with thirtysomething, My So-Called Life and Relativity--they and the team of intensely loyal writers who make up the production company Bedford Falls have explored the quiet dramas of ordinary life. Their latest effort, starring the winsome duo of Sela Ward and Billy Campbell, is, like its predecessors, a smart, angsty and intimate reflection of its creators' aesthetic and personal concerns...