There's one on-stage shooting, one attempted suicide, and a host of hectic exchanges.
Pop might love a reinvention, but it was hard to get excited by the one attempted by Jamie Treays, AKA Jamie T, on 2014's Carry on the Grudge.
The great danger about being a Troubles writer was that the book became a weapon: one attempted to impose humane values on barbarism.
No one attempted to hoist Tony Sparano, the offensive coordinator, on his shoulders, either, and maybe it was for the best.
He was convicted of 12 indecent assaults and one attempted indecent assault after having earlier been acquitted of the other attacks on the directions of the judge.
Little wonder that AS Byatt has sworn off "'basing' a character on someone," if only because she knows of "at least one suicide and one attempted suicide caused by people having been put into novels".
The approach is similar to one attempted in the failed merger this spring between Dresdner and Deutsche Bank.
"I know at least one suicide and one attempted suicide caused by people having been put into novels.
"No one attempted to hide responsive information from this committee or from any other investigative body," said Ms. Nolan, speaking for the executive office of the president.
His one attempted intervention in the religious conflict led to his being arrested and held in the Bastille, for a few hours, by extremist Catholics in Paris.
He said that since April 1999 there have been 36 assaults, including 17 felonies, along with one attempted murder, three robberies and dozens of other less serious infractions.
