Word: attempts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...series of selections from three different plays, what the characters say and do often makes no sense. During the two-and-a-half hours of performance we meet a man who is willing to pay for the privilege of staying in a hospital, witness a failed double suicide attempt with plastic bags, and listen to the ramblings of a man obsessed with diseased dogs and ready to fight for the right to sit on a park bench...
...Ronnie, the perpetual suicide attempt, Haddad cries on command and listens to the misery of others with an endearing sympathy. Ronnie is someone who knows other people's problems so well because he's managed to have many of those same problems himself. And as the infatuated teenager, Haddad reveals many of the silly yet sentimental aspects of puppy love without seeming hokey...
Barton, playing Burton, is little help in the matter, given now dispassionately he plays his character. When he comes on stage, he strokes his chin in a failed attempt to seem the deep, pensive writer. But when he refers to his work, he is uninspired...
...even if Harvard hit all of its foul shots,it still would have lost by five. The problem wason the offensive end. After scoring his 21stpoint, Mitchell found his teammates unable to workthe ball back to him. He only managed one morefield goal attempt over the last 18 minutes of thegame...
...plan includes a terrace for dining, which looks out on the historic wall--all in an attempt to create an "inviting retail environment," Banker said...