Word: anti-climaxed
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...something of an anti-climax from these great Achaean contests. The Crimson also took on The Advocate and The Lampoon, but in the less taxing sport of tug-of-war, which was, inexplicably, as popular at Harvard then as Frisbie throwing is today...
INEVITABLY, the last film, In a Cup of Tea, comes as an anti-climax, a problem Kobayashi tries to escape by emphasizing the comic. A palace guard swallows his soul and spends the night chasing teasing apparitions. The film does work as a playful mockery, but we have moved in too many directions in the course of the four films to appreciate it properly. It's almost as though each film succeeds too well on its own terms to allow the diversity Kobayashi wants...
Which is all fine and good, except Shakespeare wrote a supreme anti-climax. In the text (cut from this production) Troilus and his romantic replacement Diomedes fight one another across the stage three times, Shakespeare resorting to familiar mechanics prior to an important killing as he does in Macbeth and several of the history plays. But the killing never comes, they fight their way offstage, we never see them again, our expectations are brutally cheated. Instead, Hector (decidedly the wrong man at this point) gets killed with his pants down by Achilles, and the play ends with nothing resolved...
...prospect of a critique of Economics 1 by the Harvard-Radcliffe Young People's Socialist League was a bit startling both to those who run the course and those who take it. The eight-page document, released last month, was an anti-climax. Though well-researched and well-written, it blunted the edge of its militancy with too much scholarly prose, and too little focus on how the course should change...
...captain was mobbed by his teammates after his clutch basket, but the game was not over. Dartmouth called time and the fans had to sit through a two-second anti-climax that lasted about ten minutes...