Word: dismalness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...strung series of miniature moral defeats that might be called character vignettes if there were any humanity in them. Tully (Stacy Keach) is a drunk, forever down on his luck and looking for a job, who hasn't had a fight in a year and a half. His dismal life with a rummy mis tress (Susan Tyrell) and his struggles to get back into boxing are intercut with the exploits of a younger but no more hopeful fighter (Jeff Bridges), who mar ries because he has to and promises to end up pretty much like Tully himself...
...dismal performance. But in the course of elaborating his one prescription into 224 pages. Dr. Peter provides a kind of model for anyone who might be interested in making a living by writing "humor...
...Saigon and the government has tried to make the camp a showcase for its refugee program. An Loi also benefits from volunteer doctors, nurses and students who have pitched in to help. But for the 13,000 refugees who live there, it would be hard to find a more dismal way-stop on a journey seemingly without end. The camp is filled to four times its capacity; when no more people could possibly be crammed into the 30 dormitory-style buildings, the government set up 150 army tents. The canvas tents have no plumbing, and the floors are bare earth...
Four years have changed all that, though. Harvard's last-place effort at the 1968 games at Mexico and dismal American showings in annual international competitions since then have signalled trouble for the U. S. eight at Munich next September. The competition there will be overwhelming. Defending world champion New Zealand, which upset a powerful East German group at Copenhagen last year. West Germany, victors in 1960 at Rome and still formidable. Australia. The Soviet Union. A brilliant, and, some say, invincible field...
...next several years, Washington's economic managers face a dismal three-way choice: raise taxes severely, slash federal spending brutally, or countenance rapid inflation. That is the hard conclusion of a major new study of federal finance by the Brookings Institution, the nation's most prestigious private economic think tank. Release of the study last week immediately sharpened a basic campaign debate over the issues of how much social service Americans should expect from the Federal Government and how heavily they should be taxed to pay the bills...