Word: dismalness
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...trouble with most Latin American artists today is that they exist by busily grinding out tardy repetitions of styles already arrived, or even through and done with in the world's major art capitals. Fernando Botero, 34, is the kind of exception to this dismal pursuit of fashionable copies that suggests a rule: blend your native vision with the history of all art and forget critics...
...many banks had lent long but had borrowed short - a classic formula for financial woe. Altogether $18.6 billion of their $194.4 billion total deposits were in the form of short-term certificates of deposit, and many holders of "C.D.s" were cashing them in to draw fatter interest elsewhere. The dismal prospect was that deposits would continue to decline, while in mid-September the banks would be hit by corporations for more loans to finance quarterly tax payments. If the banks turned them down, the corporations would start a run on their deposits...
...through the seven weeks in Philadelphia and Boston, they labored to whip Breakfast at Tiffany's into something palatable, but the talents of Playwrights Nunnally Johnson, Abe Burrows and Edward Albee couldn't save the musical. After the fourth dismal preview in Manhattan, Producer David Merrick, 54, flashed a sort of risus sardonicus and announced: "Rather than subject the drama critics and the theatergoing public to an excruciatingly boring evening, I have decided to close the show. It's my Bay of Pigs." And this particular sow's ear will cost Merrick...
Unchanged ?. For years British schoolchildren have chanted, "Twelve pence make a shilling; 20 shillings make a pound," and the system they were straining to learn is as dismal as the chant. The mere job of figuring a 10% discount on a 3? 3s 3d roast beef could take a man to the edge of starvation. The system had at least one advantage: it had practically always been that way. The pound and penny first appeared about the time of King Offa in the 8th century. They were originally named for the Roman libra and denarius (hence the still used signs...
Senior Tom Musliner, after a dismal season last year, may be ready to repeat the sophomore performance which placed him second in Ivy League foil standings. A fast and precise fencer, Musliner won the New England intercollegiates last year but did poorly in Ivy competition because of "the psychological disadvantage of a spectacular sophomore year," Marion said. This fall, Musliner placed second in the New England Amateur Open, where two U.S. Olympians competed...