Word: dismalness
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...Perry's dismal early life could be the source for a play of its own--and, of course, it has been. Born and raised in New Orleans, Perry "suffered from endless abuse growing up," according to his website bio. (He and his stern father have since reconciled; after some shows, he brings his parents onstage.) As a young adult, Perry was homeless for a time. Finding faith in God gave him faith in his creative powers. Taking advice he heard Oprah Winfrey give about putting your grievances down on paper, he wrote exorcising letters to himself and turned them into...
...place preoccupied by ice cream socials, sweetly goofy teenage romances and Ford roadsters decorated with funny ("Oh you kid") slogans? When did the bleakness and perpetually bad weather set in? When did it become the poisonous appendix of our body politic, the place where the dopers and drinkers, the dismal and the dysfunctional, collect to dream of the escapes they never quite manage...
...transfer to the sunny Riviera go wildly wrong. His bosses punish him by sending him instead to the Nord Pas de Calais, warning him of its reputed cold, gloom, incessant rain, and expanses of flat, barren land pocked by slag heaps, abandoned mines, and derelict factories. Just as dismal, he is told, are the region's residents: beer-guzzling, perpetually-unemployed louts who never saw anything deep-fried they didn't love; who pack large, allegedly inbred families into dilapidated brick row houses; and whose "Ch'timi" patois - rooted the ancient French Picard dialect - is incomprehensible to outsiders. Little wonder...
...third of France's northern border. While the neighboring Belgians remain the favorite butt of French jokes about simpletons, France has traditionally considered its indigenous northerners, known as Ch'ti, too miserable to even joke about. Instead, the Ch'ti were the folks filmmakers habitually went to for dismal, Zola-esque images of France's post-industrial decline and squalor. But that glum picture has suddenly changed thanks to a new Ch'ti comedy that is setting box office records and turning northern France into the hottest, trendiest entertainment draw in French history...
...ball well,” head coach Tommy Amaker said. “And certainly that’s not a good combination—not scoring and then not defending.”It was a sign of bad things to come–more specifically, of the dismal matchup with now conference-champion Cornell that ended with a score of 86-53 and the clipping of a championship net for the Big Red. “The students came out and made it a good atmosphere,” Amaker said of the Cornell fans...