Word: anticlimaxes
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After a month during which the Crimson battled against ECAC rivals Cornell, Colgate and RPI, tonight's game should be an unfitting anticlimax. The Big Green has dropped 19 straight games to Harvard, dating back to 1981 when Dartmouth was a national powerhouse...
...This week was the best training week of the year, we had five great days of practice," Davis said. "Saturday's race was an anticlimax after the past week...
...against Yugoslavia to win their second straight gold medal, 77-70. "This one's more special than '84," said Donovan. "All the best teams were here, especially the Russians." The U.S. rolled over the Soviet women in the semifinals, 102-88, and the gold-medal game was largely an anticlimax. The U.S. men, surprisingly, never made it to the finals. Despite having eight first-round N.B.A. draft picks on the team, they were ambushed in the semis by a seasoned Soviet squad, 82-76. Led by their 7-ft. 3-in. center Arvidas Sabonis and a veteran corps of deadeye...
After months of high drama and low comedy, marked by recurrent accusations of impropriety and the highly publicized defections of several top Justice Department officials, Meese's announcement was something of an anticlimax. As soon as the Attorney General's name began to crop up in the Wedtech scandal 15 months ago, cries for Meese's resignation were as regular as congressional quorum calls. During the ensuing months, Meese became a cumbrous liability for the presidential campaign of George Bush and a living symbol of what Democrats like to call the "sleaze factor...
...wolf felon by employing the emotional minimalism of a Buster Keaton on Quaaludes. Maybe there'd be an early Disney cartoon for more refined preteen appetites. And then, on with the main attraction! The feature was often a broken-down B-minus monster movie, and pretty much an aesthetic anticlimax after the seven-minute masterpieces that opened the show. At the time, of course, nobody figured to hang cartoons in a museum. Chuck Jones, Tex Avery and the Disney elves were considered ghetto artisans then, not the Leonardos of cinema comedy. But even a ten-year-old moviegoer knew that...