Word: intentions
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Bertagna, whose squad has won six of its last eight games, added, "We've come on so strong recently that I don't think that would work anymore. Now we're intent on winning the thing...
Ronald Hayman, noted critic, once pointed out, "the very incompleteness of Beckett's works far increases the spectator's need to project his own despair in the spaces of the play." It would be a mistake to confuse an actor's shortcomings with the author's intent: to argue that the audience is simply misconstruing Kim's-and ultimately Beckett's-purpose. Worth struggles at points with the difficulties of her script, and her monologues sometimes appear awkward and belabored. Soprano Jane Bryden fails completely. Her words are inaudible...
...turnout of Mexicans intent on seeing the Pope in person defied counting. Many millions greeted him at motorcades, Masses, festivals. Much of his 81 -mile route from Mexico City to Puebla lay through a valley of humanity that lined the road, including the aged and the sick who came in hope of a cure...
...attempting to address. All five neighboring states now have an 18-year-old drinking age, and teenagers would be able to get liquor elsewhere, simply by driving over the border. Drinking would move into back alleys and front seats. In addition, the proposed law would exceed its stated intent of removing alcohol from the school yards by discriminating against the thousands of students attending Massachusetts colleges...
...Sherman Yellen's drama, about the stormy relationship between Sinclair Lewis and journalist Dorothy Thompson, might have been written as a dull screen biography of a famous American, but Hollywood stopped investing in those bland tear-jerkers decades ago. So it winds up on Broadway, with a film star intent on "flexing his acting muscles" in a role that taps a fraction of his considerable talents...