Word: dismalness
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...Butterfly," East meets West meets "The Crying Game," with dismal results. The film, adapted for the screen by David Henry Hwang from his award-winning play, tries hard (and fails) to say something about sex, race and fantasy...
Last year's 11.8 percent figure was matched orexceeded by the endowments of 71 percent of thenation's colleges and universities, according toWurts. And in fiscal 1991, Harvard's dismal 1.1percent return was outperformed by 95 percent ofcomparable institutions...
...history to find that strength lies in looking ahead, creating their own choices. That does not mean that today's choice is easy. Answered prayers can be cruel in their own right, proved by the disillusionments that have followed other recent breakthroughs -- the hardships of unified Germany, Russia's dismal paralysis. But Israel and the P.L.O. have seized the moment to clear a vast mental hurdle. With enough good faith on both sides, along with crucial U.S.diplomacy and aid from other countries, the two could build their promised lands...
...cargoes onto belts that pour the coal into ship holds. Those trains travel on lines first plotted and built to rush the troops of Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson into Civil War battles. Confederate General William Mahone, an engineering genius, felled trees so skillfully in Virginia's Great Dismal Swamp before the war that today's trains still rush over the enduring logs...
...problem, ironically, is that the enormous system of levees built up over more than 200 years may be working too well. As the flood recedes and cities like Davenport begin the dismal task of cleaning up, sharp questions are being raised about the wisdom of the nation's approach to flood control, and the cost, both financial and environmental, of a program that relies on man-made structures to contain the mighty river. Over the past seven decades, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has spent billions of dollars constructing an elaborate flood-control network, including 7,000 miles...