Word: dismalness
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...Boston Celtics have struggled to a dismal 11-34 record this season, including a league-worst 2-17 record away from the FleetCenter. Boston's best player is a twenty-year old rookie. Centers Frank Brickowski and Alton Lister are the Celtics twin Methusalehs, relics of some past age when players wore knee socks and sported afros...
...marchers, Elvis impersonators--not to mention their own better natures. We in turn get in touch with two wily comic actors, deftly exchanging well-crafted and knowing (one of the screenwriters worked in the Carter White House) political humor. My Fellow Americans puts a very bright capper on this dismal political year...
...knee-jerk tendency at year's end is to look back and decry the 12 months at hand as the most dismal, most indicative of civilization's downward arc since, well, the 12 months before this. 1996, with enough depressing cultural offerings to warm a pessimist's heart, may not change a Scrooge's mind on this score. Perhaps 1996 will even be remembered as the year of the somewhat desperate exclamation point: That Thing You Do! Suddenly Susan! Lamar...
...Crimson have good reason to be hopeful. Last season's 15-11 record represents Harvard's first winning season in 11 years. The turn-around from the dismal season of two years ago, in which the Crimson finished 6-20, is incredible but incomplete without a title...
...might help everyone forget the dismal gloom of winter for at least an hour...