Word: anticlimax
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...have been Australia's year. The Aussies had just trounced the U.S. (four matches to one) for the Davis Cup. But in the National Singles last week, the Aussies played like men still in a happy trance over winning the international cup, and as if anything else was anticlimax. By the quarterfinals, the Australian first-liners-Frank Sedgman, Jack Bromwich and Ken McGregor -had all been upset by less-favored Americans...
...final heat of the 90-mile race was an anticlimax. With only Lombardo's slower boat left to offer competition, Slo-Mo-Shun breezed through with an unspectacular average of 73.6 m.p.h. The winner's average speed for the 90 miles: 78.2 m.p.h., fastest in Gold Cup history...
Stromboli (RKO Radio). Any film by Director Roberto Rossellini and Actress Ingrid Bergman would seem anti-climactic after their own stormy, thoroughly publicized private lives. As an anticlimax in moviemaking, this one can stand on its own feet. A bleak, draggy little picture, it fulfills neither RKO's prurient advertising claims, nor Rossellini's obviously artistic intentions...