Word: vaines
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...Freddie, who was knighted by Queen Elizabeth in June 1978, tried in vain to get help. Last Sir Freddie Thursday he phoned Iain Sproat, Britain's Under-Secretary for Trade, to warn that without government aid, his airline would crash. Later that day Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher discussed Laker's plight with several Cabinet members, but chose not to bail out the carrier. Early next morning, at a tense meeting with his board of directors at Gatwick, Laker called it quits...
...before Lange's debut in the Dino de Laurentiis King Kong, that she read Farmer's autobiography, Will There Really Be a Morning? In vain she tried to persuade Bob Rafelson or Bob Fosse to direct it. (Rafelson would hire Lange for The Postman; Fosse is now preparing a film based on the tragic life of a modern starlet, Dorothy Straiten, with Mariel Hemingway in the lead.) In the interim came Shadowland, William Arnold's incorrigibly readable Farmer biography. The Frances screenwriters claim their script is based on original research, so Arnold has sued and awaits...
After three more years of delay in getting Congress to take action, the question now is whether a Congress besieged by cost cutters will finally vote millions of dollars for a wall and some fountains. An omen came last fall when Democratic Representative Dan Glickman of Kansas demanded (in vain) the cancellation of the $30,000 budgeted every year for the Roosevelt commission. Glickman professed himself an admirer of Roosevelt but complained that the commission had spent $510,000 in its 26-year existence and had very little to show for it. In fact, the $30,000 budget goes mainly...
...vain. Inevitable, inexorable, creeps forward the tide of men's despair in this petty world of fact ("There was a flood in Boston in 1835, maybe there will be again"). And all will be in vain forever, gurp, forever ("If it was 1835 I wouldn't have to go on my unicycle to Revere Beach, I could drown in my room...
...layers of meaning that will keep scholars guessing for decades. His works will probably last: Lolita is already available in an annotated critical edition. Still, there is something missing in all of Nabokov's work. His starchy aestheticism comes through as cold, crystalline, and almost inhuman. We wait in vain for that warm human glow that pervades all the works of Gogol, Turgenev, Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, and Chekhov. And his work lacks the psychological or emotional depth that might have compensated for the limited range of characters and situations. Nabokov must have been a fiery lecturer, but somehow the fire chills...