Word: comedownance
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When asked if she thought her new job a comedown down from her previous Radcliffe post. Tudor said she preferred to call it a side step...
...Taking Off is an equally minor film and a greater failure. Like Claire's Knee for Rohmer, this is Milos Forman's fourth film, and a comedown from his previous work...
Director Robert Fuest is quite a comedown from original Director William Wyler, then hitting his stride. Wyler worked against the faintly ridiculous aspects of the plot. Fuest emphasizes them: the young bastard Heathcliff finds a soul mate in Cathy, who swears "I am Heath-cliff." Grown to wild manhood, he is thrust out of the ancestral digs, Wuthering Heights, by its owner Hindley. Cathy is pledged to another; Heathcliff goes abroad and returns a sudden gentleman of fortune. At the gaming table he wins most of the estate from the ruined Hindley, but too late. Cathy, doomed...
...Clean" Strategy. While the election outcome did little to help Alabama's image, blanket denunciations of the state's voters are unfair. Wallace got only 51.5% of the total. His margin was a mere 32,000 votes out of the 1,074,000 cast-a comedown from the 72,000 votes by which he won a similar runoff in 1962 and the 237,000 by which his late wife Lurleen won the Democratic primary for Governor in 1966. More than half a million voters refused to go along with George this time, although possibly half of those were...
...Comedown for Cornfeld...