Word: failed
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Glenn Close has proven that she is an excellent actress in films such as The big chill and The World According to Garp, and she does her best here, but it just isn't enough to salvage Maxie. Indeed, it's remarkable she doesn't fail completely in light of the lines Maxie is given. The script, which manages to cram at least five 20's cliches into every sentence, must have been hard for Close to read without either laughing or bursting into tears...
...could try--and have tried--many rational machinations to justify his death, but they will all fail. I could try to write a work of art to put his death in some sort of perspective, but I don't have the talent. I could write a glorious indictment of drunk driving in this country and the mentality that fosters it, but statistics won't explain why he died. I could rant and rave against God (or no God), but that would not bring me any closer to the big WHY, a question everyone will have to face and will fail...
WHILE NO ONE CAN FAIL to be concerned about the Reagan Administration's Strategic Defense Initiative, we find both the substance and the principle of the arguments of the Harvard physicists who refuse to work on federally funded Star Wars research disquieting...
...other ways, too. Of 2,256 middle- to top-level executives studied by the University of Michigan/Ann Arbor's Fitness Research Center, only 47% reported that they exercised regularly. But 91% claimed they were in good or excellent shape. Those who try to take up working out often fail. If they do not have the start-and-stop fidgets, many exercisers have the fitness flitters, endlessly switching from one activity to another. "If people begin to exercise because it's a fad or start up with something that is not convenient, they just won't stick with it," notes...
...number of the cosponsors have signed on less out of any consuming desire to save the U.S. textile industry than out of a desire to turn the bill into a vehicle for amendments that would restrict imports of shoes and all manner of other products. But should they fail in that effort or be frustrated by a Reagan veto that sticks, the anti-import forces will not lack for other bills that would enable them to renew the fight...