Word: disappointing
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...more TV dramas draw viewers into the field, the more universities are likely to strengthen their curricula. That, in turn, could help the investigative arts harden, at last, into the true science they need to be. This won't please criminals, but it might also disappoint the new crop of forensic scientists. Raised in a world of CSI bells and Crossing Jordan whistles, they may not be prepared for the fact that forensics is not always fast or fun or pretty. It's a grueling business of trial and error, of investigative dead ends, of repeating the same experiment over...
...novel (and Oprah book) that inspired this perfect-child-in-a-rotten-world drama is a cozy read. Teenage foster child Astrid (Alison Lohman) has monumentally bad luck with mother figures (Michelle Pfeiffer, Robin Wright Penn, Renee Zellweger) but endures by taking on the attitudes of the women who disappoint her. Somehow the viewer endures too, because Lohman's pensive loveliness carries the film...
...Phantom won’t disappoint in the slightest. Lif hasn’t toned down his politics—he’s just made them more personal: “The government is smiling because they smell the scent of death blowing / Just showing that their plan is running precisely / This nigger ought to fit into a wood box nicely,” he rhymes on “A Glimpse Of The Struggle.” Phantom is a concept album (as the belabored liner notes explain), dealing with the personal struggles of a young...
Stone did not disappoint, bringing in strong classes highlighted by future Canadian Olympian Tammy Shewchuk ’00-’01 in 1996 and Angie Francisco ’01 in 1997, each of whom cracked Mleczko’s single-season Harvard scoring records in their freshman seasons. The 1999 recruiting class included two Olympians: current Canadian senior Jennifer Botterill and American junior Angela Ruggiero, who followed in Mleczko’s footsteps by interrupting their college years for the Olympics...
...take something otherworldly—perhaps some favorable karma from Ted Williams’ ghost or Pedro Martinez acquiring the ability to start every single game or even, dare I say it, a players’ strike—to stop the Curse from allowing the Bronx Bombers to disappoint Red Sox fans once again...