Word: dismalness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...view of the dismal record of the Carter Administration, giving it an encore would be like securing your kite to an anchor-no place to go but down...
...number of warheads per missile. They could -and probably would-do so simply by accelerating programs that are now being held in check by SALT. This spurt in Soviet warheads would not only bury SALT, probably forever, but would also compound the "vulnerability" of American missiles. That dismal prospect has converted the Joint Chiefs of Staff, never SALT enthusiasts, into lobbyists for the ratification of the pending treaty...
...evokes the thematic center of Wedekind's play: the awesome power of dawning libido. And Courtney Vance is universally excellent in all four of his roles, but particularly in the end, as the Man in a Mask, the Great Father who has come to save Melchior and his dismal world...
...annual level of 1.5 million, but the increase stemmed largely from new construction on federally subsidized apartments that builders had to get under way before Sept. 30, when the Government closed the books on its fiscal year. For the first nine months of the year, housing starts lagged a dismal 32% behind...
...bombed the service comedy into oblivion, Hollywood has chosen not only to revive the genre but to add an insipidly trendy twist by making the first supposedly feminist service comedy. Imagine a cross between Gomer Pyle, USMC and An Unmarried Woman. The result is Private Benjamin, a relentlessly stupid, dismal little movie...