unattempted

Just as Tweedy champions the music of fictional bands in his song, Hunt is fascinated by books that appear only in other books, books destroyed by authors fearful of publication and books left unfinished or unattempted by their creators.

“Cats,” because it is about cats and not humans, pulls off a feat that, for good reason, mostly goes unattempted: it is a kid-friendly production that runs on an undercurrent of adult—and, literally, animal—sexuality.

Vernon Unsworth, a British cave explorer who played a key role in the saving of 12 boys trapped in a flooded cavern, had said Musk’s unattempted idea of dispatching a miniature submarine “had absolutely no chance of working” and was “just a PR stunt.”

There is an unrealized, unattempted, potentially audacious movie implicit in the contrived pseudo-realism of “Graduation,” one that would have allowed Mungiu to decry and detail, from a personal perspective, the corruption that he finds endemic and unendurable in modern Romanian life.

Let’s just say that portraying the Russian Revolution in ballet terms would probably be better left unattempted.