Word: dismalness
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...Deer Hunter turned in a healthy profit and won the New York Film Critics Award and the Oscar as Best Picture of the Year. But the Quandary aside, Fort Apache, despite its emotional jerry-rigging, stands as a silly sham and a dismal artistic failure...
Tomorrow the aquawomen seek to avenge last year's rankling loss when they take on the Elis at Blodgett Pool at 3:30 p.m. in the last dual meet of the year. Despite last weekend's dismal dunking at the claws of the powerful Princeton Tigers, the aquawomen are aiming to finish their regular season with a 6-3 record before leaving for next weekend's Ivy League Swimming Championships...
However, it was not those exceptions but the dismal state of of the American economy that Ronald Reagan into the in November. Perhaps the candidate's most effective campaign tactic was during the debate with President Carter when he looked at the television camera and asked the American people: "Are you better off now than you were four years ago?" The answer was mostly no. Last year alone, the average real disposable income per capita fell an estimated...
Overall, the Crimson maintained a slight 31-26 lead on the boards, a statistic which indicates at least a partial recovery from the generally dismal rebounding performances of the last few games. Besides Carrabino, co-captain Mark Harris also turned in a key performance underneath, crashing the hoop to come up with six rebounds. Harris scored 11 points--the fourth Crimson player to hit double figures...
Indeed, the wide-ranging ideas and intentions embodied in Dadaism have been adopted and reworked in different ways by artists in each subsequent decade. The social and political commentary of George Grosz's "End of the Day" (a sketch of factory workers making the dismal trek home) and satiric "Bourgeois Society" resurfaced in the Social Realism of Ben Shahn and other American artists working in the 1930s. Several years ago a scandal ensued when the Guggenheim Museum cancelled a show of photographs of tenement housing on the grounds that the art was too "political...