Word: anticlimax
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...chair. There is really nothing else to be said. Every once in a while a film comes along that puts one of these eternal human truths as succinctly and as beautifully as they can be put--The Story of Adele H. is one of them. And, as an anticlimax, I wouldn't hesitate, in a sort of posthumous way, to give it (if it matters) the award for Best Film...
Saturday was an anticlimax for both teams. The Reds were going into Game 6 in Boston poised just one win from victory. The Red Sox, looking for their first series title in 57 years, were determined to force a seventh game. Instead of playing ball, though, the players had to watch rain splatter Fenway Park, and the game was postponed until Sunday...
...continental U.S. In 1973 the Destin fields looked so lucrative that oil companies bid a record $1.49 billion for leases. After drilling 14 dry holes, Exxon, Shell and three other producers pulled out their rigs, and oilmen now refer to that ill-fated venture as "the Destin Anticlimax." They remain confident that other offshore sites-mainly along the Eastern seaboard and the California coastline-will produce better results, perhaps yielding as much as 2 billion bbl. during the balance of the century. Whether their optimism is well founded will not be known until ways are found to overcome environmental...
...forward to it. I, for one, have already developed a deep-seated antipathy towards the number 200 and I cringe when I encounter any word that begins with "bi". Even for those who are for some reason actually enjoying this Bicentennial bombardment, the Day itself is bound to be anticlimax. The best place to wait out July 4, 1976, for everyone concerned, will be well out of the country, preferably on the other side of a sizeable body of water--perhaps in the land of our old oppressors. Second best will be right in the middle of it all. Just...
Dolgun's story of his postcaptivity chronicle is a bit of an anticlimax...