Word: comedownance
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...reserve. He seizes a piece of sculpture, beats the lover to death, and disposes of the corpse like a sanitation man hauling away the weekend debris. The husband's fate is irrevocable, of course, but watching him along the way to his comeuppance is worth the slight comedown of the denouement...
Designed by a team of young New Yorkers who won the commission over much better known contestants, the present pavilion is a comedown of sorts from the spectacular cluster of airborne spheres originally proposed but ruled out by a congressional budget slash. But the design is still a spectacular achievement. From the air it may look like a king-size mattress pad, but from ground level the thing it most resembles is a moon crater roofed over with a shallow, translucent dome. The pavilion covers an oval area approximately the size of two football fields. Its solid, earth-filled walls...
...that he had purchased the Vineyard Gazette (average circ. 5,900), the 122-year-old weekly that serves the resort island of Martha's Vineyard, Mass. If Reston ever gives up his Washington beat to ruminate for the Gazette, it will not be all that much of a comedown. For the Gazette is one of the most colorful and quoted of U.S. weeklies...
Premature Politicking. Ky's abrupt comedown was precipitated by the mercurial Premier himself. Weeks before the official July 19 kickoff for presidential campaigning, Ky had begun electioneering. He appeared on radio and television, stumped the provinces and plastered posters everywhere. When U.S. officials protested his premature politicking, he ordered the posters removed-at least, he told a friend, "in the areas where Americans see them...
...Paul Horn Quintet has borrowed Monday, Monday from the Mamas and the Papas, Norwegian Wood from the Beatles and Satisfaction from the Rolling Stones, and given them all a high gloss. The decorations are pretty, but the songs sounded jazzier the way they were in the beginning. A comedown from Reedman Horn's eloquent performance on last year's Jazz Suite on the Mass Texts...