Word: dismalness
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After losing on nine Saturdays in the dismal 1983 season, the Yale football team made sure that last fall was one to remember...
...election, the Tories carried the district, which comprises mainly small beef and sheep farmers, by almost 9,000 votes. But in a by-election reversal last week, Brecon and Radnor voters handed the government a stunning defeat. Conservative Christopher Butler finished last among the three major candidates with a dismal 27.6% of the vote. Butler's total of 10,631 votes left him 3,122 ballots behind the winner, Social Democratic/Liberal Alliance Candidate Richard Livsey. The Labor Party nominee, Richard Willey, finished a close second, just 559 votes short of Livsey...
...showdown that emerges between husband and wife, however, is disappointing. In addition to the dismal aura it casts over the film, the scene is ruined by slow motion and by the fact that the gruesome result are shown on camera...
George's arrival was accompanied by an overhaul of the show, including a new set complete with couch, brassy theme music and twisting, gridlike graphics. Estimated price tag: $2 million. Despite the show's dismal ratings, Katz remains confident. He points out that the program expanded to two hours only three years ago; before that, it split its time slot with Captain Kangaroo. "Morning News suffers, more than anything else, from not being on the air long enough," says Katz...
...Richard Gere in American Gigolo) was born in an asylum, son of the mad Norma Desmond and Screenwriter Joe Gillis, whom she shot in the last reel of Sunset Boulevard. Julian is raised by Max von Mayerling (Erich von Stroheim), Norma's former husband and butler. After two dismal marriages, Judy Rogers (Natalie Wood in Rebel Without a Cause) joins a Haight-Ashbury commune...