Word: strived
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...college drama society for producing an enormously difficult play. Although Anthony Shaffer's thriller Sleuth may not challenge a company the way a play by Ibsen or O'Neill does, in some ways the risks are even greater. In a naturalist classic, after all, the director and cast can strive for emotional honesty to compensate for a lack of maturity or finely-honed technique; Sleuth, however, is an exercise in style, and it demands a display of brazen theatrical exhibitionism, a roaring hamminess firmly entrenched in technical precision. The actors must savor Shaffer's dialogue, sputter and sing...
...vicious wolf-dog from hell whose breathing is synchronized with one of Jerry Goldsmith's Latin chants. Gregory Peck is well-meaning, but as animated as a potted plant, and the rest of the cast is colorless until their respective bloody deaths. Why is it that these movies strive to be so serious, devoid of lyricism or wit? There's nothing more terrifying than the unseen, but in "The Omen," we can even see the producers counting their money. A big hit in '76, with a sequel due this summer. To hell with...
...short the main appeal of this record is its blend of musical and lyrical avantgardness. The Head strive for a pop sound that is quirky enough to interest an intellectual audience, and Talking Heads: 77 is truly a modernist product to use the old sales pitch: If you liked Waiting for Godot, you'll love this album. But if you are turned off by the idea of troubled monologues, spoken by a "70s Man" surveying the new vacancy, devoid of the anger that animates a punk like Johnny Rotten, then save your bread. "Q'est-ce que c'est Talking...
Speakers participating in a discussion on the arms race at Harvard Hall yesterday afternoon agreed that all nations should strive to maintain peace, but the speakers disagreed over the political and economic conditions that must first exist in a country before it can abstain from resorting to violence...
...Zurich, where selling pressure was greatest, the plunge lopped nearly 4% off the dollar's value against the Swiss franc in a single day. So, at just about the time last Wednesday when Jimmy Carter told an evening audience of French businessmen in Paris that "the U.S. will strive to maintain the strength of the dollar," the Treasury and the Federal Reserve Board in Washington put substance behind his words...