Word: risked
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Ordinarily, extended recommendations run the risk of raising hopes so high that a performance cannot possibly match people's expectations. Don't worry about it. I have understated the case for hearing this group. Tuesday and Wednesday, March 26 and 27 at Passim. Call 492-7679 for info...
...workers in New York City knew what James Buckley stood for in the 1970 Senate election, he never would have gotten 65 per cent of the Catholic vote. A number of liberals, like Adlai Stevenson III in Illinois, had to swing sharply to the right in order not to risk alienating blue collar whites. Instead of educating the electorate about the tragedy of our intervention in Southeast Asia, Stevenson spent much of his time explaining why he named Thomas Foran, the prosecutor of the Chicago Seven, his campaign chairman...
...charges against Haldeman raise an obvious question: Why would he risk perjury by testifying publicly that the tape contained those five words of Nixon's if, indeed, it did not? One answer may lie in the fact that Haldeman was testifying only a couple of weeks after the existence of the secret Nixon taping system had been revealed to the Ervin committee. Nixon later fought vainly on two court levels to withhold his tapes from Archibald Cox, then the Watergate special prosecutor. He yielded seven of them, including the one of the March 21 meeting, only after the public uproar...
...Wills, a performance of such menacing subcurrents, so shrewdly and subtly conveyed, that it galvanizes the entire film. Grey won an Oscar for his nightclub M.C. in Cabaret, a splendidly sleazy characterization that seemed to grow out of his years in the musical theater. Here he takes a considerable risk, moving in an entirely different direction. He has a lot of broad, bizarre business to carry off- like passing into a trance or going quickly, slightly berserk over a small incident-that is particularly troublesome because it must be made to look easy. Grey has worked out his character totally...
...silver lining. When critics inquired about the play's message, Stoppard averred that this is no age for message in the theater. "One writes about human beings under stress," he said, "whether it is about losing one's trousers or being nailed to a cross." To risk a play whose primary level was philosophical, he added, "would be fatal." In Jumpers, that is just the gamble he has taken-in London with triumphant results. Now the play has opened in Washington, D.C., for a limited run at the John F. Kennedy Center...