Word: dismalness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...become the second Attorney General-and third Cabinet member-in the Nixon Administration to face criminal charges. John Mitchell and former Commerce Secretary Maurice Stans are already on trial in New York on one campaign funding case (see story following page). A guilty plea by Kleindienst would be another dismal record for an Administration that is breaking all precedents for scandalous official conduct...
Here, however, the object of the obsession is so thoroughly without mystery that it comes to look like little more than a stubborn caprice. With a Gatsby crippled by such a dismal Daisy, the movie must be sustained by its secondary characters. There is little enough strength there. As Daisy's friend Jordan Baker, Lois Chiles seems to be fighting off unsuccessfully the effects of a massive dose of Novocain. George Wilson, the poor garage man who kills Gatsby, and his wife Myrtle are impersonated by Scott Wilson and Karen Black in little bursts of lunatic melodrama...
...Harvard has had little success in the NCAAs. Last year the Crimson finished far out of the money as Bennett, White and sabreman Terry Valenzuela failed to mount any kind of consistency. Two years ago, despite an All-American performance by epee man Geza Tatrallyay, the Crimson finished a dismal eleventh...
...rude awakening for the Crimson icemen, who were playing one their best, if not the best game of the season. The bubble had carried Harvard from a dismal 6-7-1 record in mid-January to the NCAA tournament semis, and for a while it looked as though it might take the Crimson all the way to a national championship...
...glib charm. He is garrulous, eccentric, at ease with his chronic unemployment, and exhilarated by the way in which he can play off his women against each other. For themselves, the women accept his rules and compete for Alexandre with a sort of sidelong intensity that ends one dismal night in a disputed ménage à trois and an attempted suicide...