Word: attempt
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...what is to be done about the drawing-room-ization of campus theater? The massive project of expanding the audience for theater is more than can be addressed on a single page, and this is not the place for such a manifesto. This is simply an attempt to draw attention to an issue that is of far greater importance than it may at first appear. Theater, unlike almost any other activity on campus or off, has a unique responsibility to expand its circle of adherents. Let plays be entertaining. Let plays offer actors and directors a chance to express themselves...
Last Thursday morning, the police allege that Viswanathan made a second attempt to pick up the computers, this time presenting an I.D. that had been stolen from the Malkin Athletic Center. TPC allowed Viswanathan to sign for the computers using the false name...
...With all the build-up surrounding the exhibit, it was disappointing to exit the lecture hall and find that it consisted solely of huge blown-up photographs of textiles, nature scenes, sketches and models behind barbed wire wearing Rei's work. The degree of success with which the attempt to bridge the gap between old and new was met could perhaps be reckoned by the quizzical expression on the face of the graying man in the conservative suit examining the exhibition. He stood watching one of two video monitors displaying excerpts from Kawakubo's most recent runway showings, in which...
...counteroffer in Sunday's Washington Post, apparently "leaked" to the press days before it was meant to be released. The plan, couched in the company's most conciliatory language to date, seemed designed to placate government tempers while simultaneously maintaining the company's innocence against antitrust charges. That attempt has apparently failed; Thursday's reports indicate that DOJ officials are unswayed by Microsoft's advances, and believe U.S. District Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson will share their point of view...
...Starr sharply accused the Clinton Justice Department of hindering his own attempt to probe whether his prosecutors leaked information to the media...