Word: dismalness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Still, no one has yet taken Montana up on its offer to trade grizzly bears, and at least one of the swaps has been a dismal failure. Ohio acquired dozens of Allegheny wood rats, most of them from Kentucky, and released them in the central part of the state. But none of them have survived. Concedes State Wildlife Administrator Denis Case: "This turned out to be an excellent program for feeding great horned owls...
...their creative promise: they have brought imagination, excitement and stylistic diversity to weekly series fare. The clinkers may outnumber the winners by a wide margin, but the high points--many from feature directors taking an unaccustomed fling at TV--have been worth waiting for. John Landis, director of the dismal Christmas release Spies Like Us, managed to pack far more laughs into his wacky episode of George Burns Comedy Week, about a small town that tries to win federal disaster aid by faking an earthquake. Joe Dante's best work of the year was not his feature flop Explorers...
...been less than a decade since Columbus's first feature film--Reckless, which he wrote in college. Inspired by the music of Bruce Springsteen, the movie "celebrated escape," Columbus says. It was a dismal failure: the film company "took the script away from me and added 20 minutes of sex. The film was originally rated X. It was just a mess...
...Reagan's dismal (and revealing) round one performance was disturbing, the case with which he regained his good standing was nothing less than horrifying. Despite an otherwise mediocre performance riddled with factual errors and lesser mental lapses, the president redeemed himself with a single one-liner in the second debate...
...last day she could withdraw from her math course, and the sophomore was distraught by the prospect of a dismal grade...