Word: humorlessness
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...both owners and players became locked in unyielding stances that made protracted trench warfare inevitable. The few bargaining sessions that were held before the strike quickly degenerated into formulaic speeches and sarcastic byplay, all accentuated by the growing animosity between the voluble, chain-smoking Ravitch and the intense, almost humorless Fehr. "Did you see how unpleasant he is?" Ravitch asked rhetorically about Fehr before a joint TV appearance Friday. "It's never been like that in all the negotiations I've been involved in." If the season were to end without a contract, the owners would retain powerful weapons...
Generally, FM looks up to The Crimson. A few years ago, when the mag was called The What is to be Done, we actually imitated the newspaper; it was the sincerest form of flattery to be as newsy as Crimson's page one, as gray as page one, as humorless as page one. Now that we are slightly older--now that we're Fifteen Minutes--we choose to do our own thing...
...disgraceful. It is just ordinary and needs some shower-room tile to bulk it up. Somebody is kidding somebody else here: Does Waller realize that the CD is mediocre? If so, does he suppose his fans won't care? Is he simply -- and at any cost, even ridicule -- a humorless self-advertiser...
...movement is the rising disapproval ratings for both of them. Neither candidate is getting across a message that he can be an urban Mr. Fixit. Dinkins comes off as a courtly but unimaginative bureaucrat with a taste for fussy clothes and fancy ceremonies. Giuliani has a reputation as a humorless autocrat with an abrasive management style that involves shooting first and asking questions later...
...noticed that with children of politicians (you know Gore's daddy was a senator), they're just so long in the public eye and started so young that they tend to have a real public face. And Gore has, of course, the public face of an utterly humorless young Baptist minister...