Word: stabs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Roth's stab at seriousness is less brilliant. As he dies, Zuckerman's father looks at his son and whispers, "Bastard." Is this the final misunderstanding, the last, most painful blurring of illusion and illusionist? The question is mooted by Zuckerman's response. He is relieved. With his father dead and his old Newark neighborhood unrecognizable, the author of Carnovsky is literally unbound...
...this week between the Administration-backed Gramm-Latta resolution and the opposing measure crafted by James Jones, the Oklahoma Democrat who heads the House Budget Committee. The root of the problem is that anyone attempting to gauge the effect of proposed spending and tax cuts has to make a stab at forecasting what inflation, unemployment and interest rates are likely to be. A one-point rise in the jobless rate, for example, adds $30 billion to the federal deficit by increasing expenditures for unemployment compensation, welfare and the like, and by reducing tax collections. A one-point rise in interest...
...members of the Brooklyn Academy of Music repertory company sometimes seem to have just been introduced to one another at a cocktail party. This is their best stab at ensemble work...
Kaplan has made a game stab at filling the space. He had meticulously choreographed a procession of clever unsurprising slapstick turns, solemnly executed by actors who signal the coming of a collision, pratfall or somersault the way a five-year-old holds his nose before diving off a high board. Rather than using the company's limitations and giving us a slopping, ingratiating evening, the director offers us a museum piece--slapstick embalmed...
That's a place where you learn to take drugs and stab people." Stab people? Take drugs? How about not locking your cars, the Eastern householder suddenly wonders. "Oh, we still do that," says Billie Powers, "but it's asking for trouble. We're getting the same element here as everywhere else...