Word: failed
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...despite these academic trappings, the book fails miserably in its pretension to be a serious look at the issues. The prose, while often straight forward, becomes intolerable as Hart's conscientious stabs at eloquence fall flat--painfully highlighted by his incessant quoting of John F. Kennedy '40, whom he is clearly flying to emulate. Typical of his rhetoric are such hollow lines is. We have the experience, the means and the power to make the right choice. We cannot escape the consequences of making the wrong one," Or. "The steps outlined in this section are designed to help us bestow...
...surprise, is a guilty and suicidal Susan, who spends the majority of the novel dwelling on her inability to transcend her parents' misery and contemplating her own destruction. Unfortunately, Susan reverts to the all too common methods of alcohol and hedonistic fantasies, and when these fail her, she attempts unsuccessfully to end her own life. Susan is miraculously, and somewhat unrealistically, saved from an overdose by her ex-husband, but it is a contrived redemption. Too many sob stories, too much booze, and too many trite lines about guilt and the meaning of life at the wrong time make...
...Even if...plaintiffs were more qualified than 'comparable males,' plaintiffs' case would have to fail...
...although it concedes that it has not yet implemented all of them. But some critics complain that the initiatives were inadequate to begin with. In a report written for the Council on Economic Priorities, a liberal research group in New York, Defense Specialist Gordon Adams contends that the initiatives fail to address some of the worst problems of weapons production, notably the Pentagon's reliance on cost estimates from contractors, estimates that it makes little effort to check...
...President's Men) or the beefy six-figure fees that his work has commanded. He emphasizes instead the pervasive uncertainty that seeps through all stages of moviemaking. He sets "the single most important fact" about his subject in capital letters: NOBODY KNOWS ANYTHING. Films that cannot fail do so, disastrously. "We're home," Richard Zanuck once cabled his father Darryl after a movie preview. "Better than Sound of Music." The object of this enthusiasm was Star!, which Goldman describes as "the Edsel of 20th Century-Fox." Success is equally impossible to foresee; the author rehearses the litany...