Word: anticlimax
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...hoax, which had once seemed a thing of dazzling design and theatrical performance, thumped toward an anticlimax. Last week Clifford Irving's elaborate production, the false autobiography of Howard Hughes, was replayed in lumpy, legalistic prose as two grand juries in New York indicted Irving and his wife Edith. One of the juries also indicted their burly collaborator, Writer-Researcher Richard Suskind...
MAJORITY Leader Mike Mansfield called the Senate into session at 9 a.m. Friday, three hours earlier than usual, so that his colleagues would have plenty of time to get their perorations into the record before the hour agreed upon for voting -7 p.m. There was an air of anticlimax in the chamber: bitter skirmishing over amendments to the bill had ended two days before, with consistent victories for Administration lobbyists who twisted arms and scraped senatorial egos. Still, there seemed no doubt that the bill would pass. White House congressional liaison men had vanished from Capitol Hill. Their chief, Clark...
After whizzing through four states, shaking every available hand, bombarding young and old with "no hogwash" speeches, supping with financial backers and hopping with Hopi Indians in front of television cameras, Oklahoma Senator Fred Harris announced his candidacy for President in what was an anticlimax. By looking earthy and talking plain, Harris hopes to put together a "populist" coalition of society's "left-outs." He plans to enter the primaries in Florida, West Virginia, New Mexico and California, where he thinks a Populist approach may pay off. Like George McGovern, the only other announced candidate, he must be considered...
Protracted Striptease. There was an air of anticlimax when he confronted the press in Gracie Mansion, for months of rumors about the change had given it the tedium of a protracted striptease. Nonetheless, the room was jammed with 17 movie and television cameras and dozens of reporters. It was a testimony of press interest in the mayor and, to his enemies, a confirmation of their charge that he is a creation of the media. In soft, matter-of-fact tones, Lindsay delivered a seven-minute recitation of his differences with the G.O.P. on issues and ideology. "In a sense...
...that Yahya's decision to convene the assembly would pacify Mujib. Two days earlier, the East Pakistani leader said of the West Pakistanis: "I will break them and bring them to their knees." After such a statement, an outright declaration of independence could be little more than an anticlimax...