Word: duds
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Even at Harvard, no one expects every class to be stellar, and a few duds are just par for the course...though every dud next year will cost you about...
...millennial talk, what with his loose chat about Evil Empires and Armageddon. Surely, the 1980s would have made a better closing decade than the relatively placid late '90s--just about any decade of this cataclysmic century would have. And maybe that's why the millennium already feels like a dud. Compared with where we've been these past hundred years, the new age seems to promise normality more than doom or utopia. Which isn't a bad thing--it just doesn't offer much prospect for funny cartoons, or riveting drama, or even, alas, spiffy office chairs...
Thus the snowy Canadian winter passed in a zing. One unexpected treat for me was the arrival, shortly after myself, of veteran film star Lori Breckner, who had been my date for the 1998 Academy Awards ceremony, and who played opposite me in the critically successful box-office dud Car Crash 500. ("Yes, Don, I know movies are young young young. But what do a bunch of brats in Glendale know about pain...
...when it seemed Austen-mania could be borne no longer, this lush production radiantly revived the rage for Jane. With perfectly observed sets and a keen grasp of the subversive social themes that underlie Austen's comedy, this mini-series put its competition to shame. PBS' Moll Flanders? A dud...
Last Sunday's presidential debate was something of a dud in the ratings, drawing only three-quarters of the audience that saw the first Bush-Clinton-Perot encounter in 1992. But no one who missed the event could possibly have felt left out--not if they glanced at a newspaper the next morning, or watched television news, or listened to a radio talk show, or tapped into any one of dozens of computer Websites. In fact, for the next 24 hours they could hardly escape the darn thing. Just a random sampling...