Word: failed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...union has called for a moratorium of tensions, and has offered to submit to binding arbitration, she added, but the company has refused all overtures and so "continues to fail to act in good faith...
Tanz Forum Koln relies heavily on acting for expression; their dancing is not exceptional. The effortless quality that marks great technique is missing; with few exceptions, the dancers of the company don't finish their movements, are off in their timing by that fraction of a second, fail to spark the pattern with the extra inch of height or breath in a leg or leap...
...record of 56 vetoes in his two years in the White House as an example of "government by stalemate," the President claimed that F.D.R. had averaged 55 vetoes a year, Harry Truman 38 and Carter himself, as Governor of Georgia, between 35 and 40. (All such averages, of course, fail to gauge the significance of the measures vetoed...
...thought of that at the Maplewood Theater. If I had only known what the hell was going on in the last hour I wouldn't have had to ask: Why does Buck Henry's hair turn white in the space of five minutes? Why does Bowie's space shot fail? Why do his records sell? And yet, there is so much that is interesting in the film, so much canniness and so much good acting (including Bowie's) that at the risk of losing readership this early...
...manners and a smile. Literary Critic Josephine Hendin, writing about the late Georgia Novelist Flannery O'Connor, speaks of a Southern "politeness that engulfs every other emotion." "No matter how bad an evening has been," says Atlanta Psychiatrist Alfred Messer, a native of New Jersey, "Southern women never fail to say, 'Y'all come back and see us again soon' when they might want to say, 'Drop dead.' " Critic Haskell recalls having to take "sort of the Anita Loos approach" to society. "You ask the great big man what he's interested...