Word: dismalness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...kind of sloppy at the end," said the Crimson's Arne Duncan, the current Ivy Rookie of the Week who deposited a career high himself this particular night. Coupled with Carrabino's 32, Duncan's 20 points were the saving grace in an otherwise dismal day that began with Ferry's mishap...
...modest improvement in manners. Perhaps the kindest way to describe Crackers is to say that it is informed by the older sensibility. Louis Malle's remake of the unfunny 1958 Italian comedy Big Deal on Madonna Street has gained nothing in translation to contemporary San Francisco, where a dismal group of losers ineptly attempt to rob the safe of a pawnbroker who is, grumpily, the only friend they have...
Last week in Ames, Iowa, real farmers asked Democratic presidential candidates questions about agriculture, which the farmers feel is in dismal condition. The idea was to get a measure of the knowledge and concern of these would-be Presidents. In a couple of weeks, a debate sponsored by the Des Moines Register will allow these men to question one another and answer a few queries from the newspaper's scholarly Washington bureau chief James Risser and a few more from knowledgeable lowans. No Phil Donahue, no Ted Koppel, no Hollywood, lowans have always had a bit more than their...
...skier's closest relationship is with the mountain. "I love to be on the hill in the morning when it's still dark," Phil says, "to make three or four runs just waiting for the sun to come up." Because of a bleak December and dismal snow in Europe, the brothers came home early from the World Cup tour to Yakima for practice over Christmas. So far, their best finishes have been a third for Steve and a ninth for Phil, who says, "It's funny sometimes how quickly everything can just click in. When everything...
...19th century bourgeoisie acquired its dismal reputation partly because of what Gay calls its "lust to conceal" and partly because historians have been too inclined to listen to its cultural leaders, its pedagogues, its doctors and divines, who imposed on their society what Gay calls "learned ignorance." Any aspect of sex that diverged from the biblical injunction to be fruitful and multiply, they taught, was immoral and therefore must not happen...