Word: anticlimax
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...case of the Moscow summit of 1988, the feeling of mild anticlimax set in before Ronald Reagan even climbed aboard Air Force One to ride west. Part of the reason was the flip side of the good news about Soviet-American relations: this was, after all, Reagan's fourth meeting with Mikhail Gorbachev, and even the amazing sight of their walking through Red Square together could hardly be considered a historic triumph...
...wasn't until 6:00 a.m. on Monday when the heavies got to race. "By then, it was an anticlimax," Weltchek said...
...create characters an audience can fall in love with. But on a TV series, relationships are never resolved; they are just continued next week. So Brooks concludes Broadcast News with a sitcom ellipsis, not a movie exclamation point. The movie ends, like the '80s perhaps, in resignation and anticlimax. Maybe no one believes in happy endings anymore, or even in endings. Maybe, after Bakker and Hart and Iranamuck, people are too cynical to care who gets the girl. But it is good to know that craftsmen like Brooks can create compelling, pertinent folks like Jane, Aaron...
Everything after The Fire Next Time was anticlimax. There were TV interviews and invitations to the White House and a portrait on the cover of TIME, but most of what Jimmy wrote after he became famous lacked the passion of his younger years. That is part of the price of success...
...ended last Friday with a fizzle. Yes, the conferees managed to patch together a shaky agreement, one that purports to reduce the deficit by $30 billion next year and $46 billion more the year after. But as the President and congressional leaders announced the plan, a strange air of anticlimax pervaded the White House briefing room. "This agreement is probably not the best deal that could be made," said Reagan, "but it is a good, solid beginning." House Speaker Jim Wright struck a conciliatory note: "Everybody gives some, nobody gets everything he wants." Later New Mexico's Pete Domenici...