Word: fails
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Sadat, none was forthcoming. Concluded TIME Correspondent Dean Brelis: "Sadat so far has outsmarted the Arabs who oppose him because he continues to insist on a comprehensive settlement. They are clearly afraid that, despite the countless obstacles, Sadat will somehow pull off a settlement." Having gambled that he will fail, the anti-Sadat Arabs have not yet decided what they will do if, by chance, he should succeed...
...trivial. In the rare instances where concept albums have succeeded (Randy Newman's Good Ole Boys, for example), the songs have seemed like elements of a large orchestral work; the whole has seemed greater than the sum of its parts. Such records are the exception, though. Concept albums generally fail to do the very thing they set out to do, and they emerge fragmented, insignificant failures...
...clear that the road Mitchell is traveling leads to home. In fact, for all the analytical self-portraits Mitchell paints, it is not clear where she is going. Too many of the songs on Don Juan's Reckless Daughter lack clarity and perspective, and too many simply fail to be interesting. Not all of the songs fail, however, and the musicianship is consistently creative and imaginative. The end product is a creditable, if somewhat unsatisfying, effort...
...Should we fail, the cost to each of our nations and to the world as a whole will be incalculable. Our markets would close, unemployment would become endemic and governments would fall...
...actress who plays Anna is right, Anna Karenina can scarcely fail, and this production rides, like a Moscow sleigh, on Pagett's splendor and charm. Like many other Masterpiece Theater series, it is slow in starting, and Scriptwriter Donald Wilson has created inexcusable confusions in the first three episodes. A viewer will even be hard pressed to tell when and where Anna and her lover...