Word: succeeded
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Well, I think that a country which can be self-supporting in energy (as we shall be in 1980), a country which has skilled scientific manpower and a technological base, a country that has a self-disciplined population -don't tell me that this country can't succeed. Of course it can. We've got to give our people confidence that there is something on the other side of the hill and stop the loser mentality...
...Depleted by cancer, Carmen decided to choose the time, place and manner of her death. "Cancer was going to kill her," Jessamyn recalls. "She planned to be asleep before that happened." Jessamyn kept watch. Until the moment the sleeping pills worked, she had doubts that the scheme would succeed. Neither sister had doubts about its morality...
...aware of a power struggle within the news department to succeed...
...collection, entitled Of Women Born, of ambiguously sexual photographs of commonplace women, startlingly exposed in their homely nakedness. Snippets of interviews accompany each portrait, in which her subjects try to say something meaningful about themselves--a dubious proposition in which, at least for the onlooker, they don't succeed. Occasionally an isolated phrase, like Lottie's, escapes tendentiousness. Her pronouncement damns men implicitly and reveals a healthy and admiring kind of greed in her own character. She says, "Men go to all lengths to have a woman's beauty; I don't want them to have it all to themselves...
...Tangent Watchers," the most recent of a series of intimate dances titled "Inscapes," Gray does succeed in reaching beyond her theme. A duet for two women, the pieces begin with Gray pounding her fist into her palm, Susan Dowling catching one wrist with the other hand. Dowling delicately arrests her gestures, Gray percussively snaps hers. Both work within their own style of moving and yet transcend their individuality too, dancing in unison through the second half of the piece. In contrast, Gray starts off another dance in the series, "Looking to See," with unison movement. In this piece a second...