Word: badly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Hardin's 'Bad...
Self-consciousness in literature is bad enough, but self-consciously self-conscious self-consciousness is intolerable, especially when carried to the nth degree--like a box with a picture of a man holding a box with a picture of etc.--and combined with narcissitic aimlessness and a razzle-dazzle contortionist style...
...considerably more wary of Army. "They are the worst possible team to go against with injuries," he admitted. "It would not be as bad against a skillful team," he continued, "but Army overpowers...
...VISIT to a bad show doesn't have to be a total loss. For one thing, you can learn the difference between a flop and a failure. A flop, in the words Walter Kerr used a few years back to describe a fiasco called Kelly, is "a bad idea gone wrong." Such a show, through its total ineptitude, can often be very funny. (A knowledgeable friend of mine who saw Kelly's one and only Broadway performance counts it among the most hilarious evenings he's ever spent in a theatre.) A failure, on the other hand, is a good...
...help their collaborator along. As a result, they do so little that the Madwoman is not fleshed out until the second act. Nor do Lawrence and Lee establish any other character until too late. This is particularly unfortunate in the case of the villains, who are such vague "bad guys" that it's hard to know exactly what evil forces the Madwoman has to deal with...