Word: vaines
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...year old clown was renowned for his routine with a block of ice. He carried this around the arena looking in vain for a recipient while it melted in his hands into an ice cube...
First is the national student strike. We learned two years ago who debilitating a strike can be when turned inward. There is little reason to lose time picketing classes in a vain attempt to "shut down" the university. Students can strike against the war regardless of the university--we need the university to close as little as we need its permission to go ahead demonstrating against...
...vain, conservation groups suggested less disruptive alternatives where possible, such as building levees behind stream banks or prohibiting use of flood plains through zoning. Seeking redress in court, they argued before a North Carolina federal judge that despite an SCS review of the environmental effects of its pending projects, the agency was still violating the 1969 Act. In a key decision last month, the judge agreed with them and ruled fhat the SCS should issue the required statements...
...committees. From the countryside came 1,500 letters filled with suggestions. The delegates studied, argued, hammered out their proposals, and hard work it was. "We had to educate ourselves and write a constitution at the same time," recalls Robert Kelleher of Billings, an imaginative attorney who fought in vain to change the government to the parliamentary system and legalize homosexuality and prostitution...
...three instances the casting is perfect. Robards gives a performance for the theatrical memory book: vain, vulnerable, self-pitying, playful, hung over, a deposed Richard II of the Great White Way who wins back his crown. Grizzard is the perfect foil, an edgy Broadway Bolingbroke with a rapier for a tongue. Unfortunately, Maureen Stapleton still seems to be playing The Gingerbread Lady. She is a jittery bundle of nerves rather than the tough stoic she ought to be, and her matronly appearance short-circuits what should be an electrically charged love interest between her and Grizzard. Nonetheless...