Word: failed
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DESPITE exceptional acting by most of Christ's Clowns, however, their crusade is not as humorous as playwright Barnes intends. Try as the actors and director do, they fail to turn Barnes' anti-clerical, left-leaning lines into truly hysterical happenings. Barnes' comic moments are often one-liners, and they grow few and far between as the play progresses. Some of the lines even seem anachronistic--like the one about God: "She is Black...
Those words failed to blunt the drive by Milosevic for greater power for himself and Serbia. As party meetings were held throughout the republics in preparation for a meeting of the 165-member Yugoslav Central Committee this week, there was talk that up to one-third of the members might be ousted in a pro-Milosevic shake-up and a purge of incompetents. The Serbian party, meanwhile, hammered away at the Kosovo issue. A Serbian party resolution, backed by Milosevic, demanded the ouster of three top Kosovo party officials, two of them ethnic Albanians. Warned Milosevic: "The people gather...
...long-term investments. For the moment, oil prices seem capable of deep downward swings. Indonesia's Subroto, the OPEC secretary- general, has warned that prices could fall as low as $5 per bbl. if Saudi Arabia and the other overproducers were to keep flooding the market. If such predictions fail to spur the group toward cooperation over the next few weeks, OPEC may be setting the stage for the oil-price collapse...
...safety, Nogee said the plant is cooled by corrosive salt water, has suffered 16 years of "management abuse" and has a containment design which the NRC has found would fail in 90 percent of all serious accidents...
...cannot fail to associate this with Degas's own working methods, the sense of filiation and descent that would breathe through his work for the rest of his life, the past feeding into the present and then out into the future. Degas, the synthesizer of Ingres and Delacroix, would point -- through the wild color fields and direct manual touch of his later years -- to a modernism that was not yet born...