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...frustration gets me down, and I feel somehow implicated by his criticism. I realize that I shouldn't have let my friends drag me (or my eight bucks) to the utterly dismal "Contact" this summer; I shouldn't have complained "I don't want to read a movie tonight" that time a friend was bent on renting a subtitled, Japanese-language video...

Author: By Dan S. Aibel, | Title: The Last Picture Show | 11/19/1997 | See Source »

...star as an abused wife in the upcoming The Rainmaker and will appear as Cosette in Les Miserables this spring. Though it is understandable that someone as young as Danes might mistake originality for quality, her performance, sadly, can't possibly rise above a script as dismal as that of I Love You, I Love...

Author: By Soman S. Chainani, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: No Saving This So-Called Screenplay | 11/14/1997 | See Source »

This is not to say that welfare mothers shouldn't learn how to work. But the double standard shows a tremendous disconnect. As the trial was unfolding, the President and First Lady convened a Conference on Child Care. Mostly, the Clintons clucked over the dismal hodgepodge of day care in this country, the worst in the industrialized world. It's not just that we aren't soft and indulgent, like Sweden. It's that the average pay for caregivers is $12,000 annually; the average training is nil; and there are few standards to speak of. There is massive burnout...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HOME ALONE | 11/10/1997 | See Source »

Last season, the Crimson managed only 2.6 goals per game with a dismal 10 percent power-play efficiency. This year, with the absence of Craig MacDonald, who is training with the Canadian National Team, Harvard must fall to the back and rely on its strength--the defense...

Author: By Rebecca A. Blaeser, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: M. Hockey Opens Against Cornell | 11/7/1997 | See Source »

Though we sympathize with the Curleys and others whose relatives have been murdered, we are proud to live in a state where convicted murderers are allowed to live a dismal yet hopefully contemplative life in a prison cell and where innocent, convicted murderers have the chance to exonerate themselves when new evidence presents itself...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Gov. Cellucci: Veto Death Penalty | 11/5/1997 | See Source »

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