Word: dismalness
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...they will do this for the same reason they root their teams onto the "wild card" spot in the playoffs, for the same reason they continued to watch every moment of "L.A. Law" in its dismal final season. They will do this because as true devotees, they have deep attachments to the object of their devotion, the kinds of attachments that refuse to be undermined by subtle corruptions. When you're a real fan, a tainted product is almost always better than no product at all; if the Mets are going to play the Yankees and it's going...
They were, of course, the lucky ones. Between 1933 and 1944, America's record in admitting refugees from Nazism was dismal, a moral blot. Less than half the already stingy immigrant quotas were filled because of the timidity of Franklin Roosevelt and the pigheaded xenophobia of his Under Secretary of State Breckinridge Long. Those in the arts had no special exemptions, of course; but by a combination of stubbornness, string pulling, blind luck and the help of a tiny number of devotees and friends in the U.S., some did get through, settling for the most part in Manhattan...
Shewchuk, though, does not see the dismal fan support here at Harvard as an extension of these prejudices. Instead, Crimson fans expect a wining team, regardless of its gender. A team that finishes the regular season 9-17 just isn't going to draw the fans...
...year before Delaney-Smith came to Harvard, the Crimson posted a dismal record of 4-21. Within four years of Delaney-Smith's arrival, Harvard completed a 20-win season and captured its first ever Ivy League Title...
...them boldly colored, the other rather gray and recessive. Besides Scissorhands, the first skein includes Ed Wood, Depp's serenely obsessive portrait of the grade-Z moviemaker and cross-dresser with a special affection for angora sweaters; Don Juan De Marco, where he plays a schizophrenic who escapes from dismal reality by impersonating, with sinuous delicacy, an enviably proficient Latin lover; and Benny & Joon, in which he's an illiterate and nearly speechless waif with a genius for mime. What is perhaps most striking about these characterizations is their fundamental sobriety, disciplined intensity and hints of Depp's other main...