Word: endeavors
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Hard as he is on unpleasant people, Adams lays a heavier hand on things and ideas he does not like. The center that Rowf and Snitter escape from is called Animal Research, Surgical and Experimental (A.R.S.E.). Its acronym hits the level on which every endeavor that does not involve padding about on four feet is treated. The behavior of politicians, scientists and journalists invariably rouses Adams into the kind of jocular sneering that is more fun to write than to read...
...Omen is a soulless, gutless endeavor, an ultra-gory, workmanlike tale about the arrival of the anti-Christ, one Damien. (Every movie about the devil must have its "Damien"). Every ten minutes someone gets impaled, chucked out a window, or decapitated, the latter by a plate-glass window in a scene lingered over by the cameraman as though he were some kind of vampire. One moment of imagination: the prowl of a vicious wolf-dog from hell whose breathing is synchronized with one of Jerry Goldsmith's Latin chants. Gregory Peck is well-meaning, but as animated as a potted...
...usually probably slosho enough to giggle its way through the Apocalypse (believe it or not, this actually happens, this year, in Act I, Scene Seven--count 'em--Seven); and that the Crimson critic does his part every year by saying unkind things about the show--a silly and futile endeavor since the show always sells out anyway (which is more than we can say for The Crimson, right...
...then again, to see George Hughes's artistic man-up endeavor from Cochrane and McDonald in the second period makes you wonder why it can't be done like that against anybody, let alone a team who came into Watson riding a 12-game winning streak...
...politics, an endeavor where egos regularly outpace dedication, Hubert Humphrey [Jan. 23] seems never to have forgotten the people; he never abandoned his dedication to their needs; he never lost faith with the dream of what America might be. In my lifetime, a handful of political leaders have made me proud to be an American. Hubert H. Humphrey alone among them made me proud to be a human being...