Word: direness
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...talking about his scouting assignment so deep in the Mexican bush leagues that they play in the rain because it makes sliding easier. There he discovers Steve Nebraska (Brendan Fraser), a phenom with a fast ball so potent it knocks over the catcher and the umpire. Steve is in dire need of an understanding father figure -- especially after he gets a $55 million contract with the Yanks...
...further still, that these barbarians are not at the gates but are largely in charge of American education and the nation's debased institutions of public discourse. His The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages (Harcourt Brace; 578 pages; $29.95) is thus, in part, a dire prophecy of the end of civilization as we know it: "I realize that the Balkanization of literary studies is irreversible...
...College, our government is known as the Undergraduate Council. Like Congress, the council doesn't seem to care much about what students want. Like Congress, the council doesn't get much done, often because it is mired in scandal. And like Congress, the council is in dire need of reform...
...recordings are populated by such stylistically disparate collaborators as Lyle Lovett, Mark Knopfler of Dire Straits, Larry Mullen Jr. and Adam Clayton of U2 and even the Chieftains. In the rigidly structured formats of FM radio, though, Griffith has never found a fit: Is she folk, country or what? Now, with the release this month of her 12th album, the magnificently tuneful and frankly autobiographical Flyer, Griffith's relative lack of celebrity is a bygone thing...
Faced with these dire statistics, the Egyptian government began to explore family planning in the early 1980s, at first cautiously and then with increasing boldness. In fact, the U.N. gave President Hosni Mubarak its 1994 population award because Egypt cut its growth rate from more than 3% in 1985 to just over 2% last year...