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...fact, every virus has been a letdown: Melissa; the Love Bug; Michelangelo; BubbleBoy; the Sniffling, Sneezing, Aching, Stuffy-Head, Fever Virus. Even Y2K turned into nothing. Which is good, except that I?m still eating milletloaf every night...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Code Red Worm Turns ... Out to Be a Bust | 8/6/2001 | See Source »

...significant accomplishments was that he took an essentially rural form of music, Delta blues, and made it tough enough for the city, strong enough to support all the rock and roll that would come after it. Hooker once said "the blues is a pick-up. It's not a letdown." Although he sang sad songs like "Hobo Blues" and "My First Wife Left Me" and "It Serves Me Right (To Suffer)", Hooker was searching for catharsis, not pathos; he was looking to chase pain away, not to simply revel in it. "What do music do? It keeps the world turning...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: John Lee Hooker: He Paid His Dues | 6/22/2001 | See Source »

Reality TV is supposed to coarsen the culture, accelerating America's highly anticipated slide into the Sodom-Gomorrah metropolitan area. Survivor: The Australian Outback proved to be a huge letdown. TINA WESSON, sweet part-time nurse from Tennessee, took the million dollars, but sensitivity flowed from the other finalists too: COLBY DONALDSON (weepy mama's boy), RODGER BINGHAM (weepy schoolteacher), ELISABETH FILARSKI (weepy outback nymph) and KEITH FAMIE (just plain weepy--he broke down on live TV to propose marriage to his girlfriend). "I wanted it to be a kinder game," said Wesson, of the unfortunate lack of backstabbing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: May 14, 2001 | 5/14/2001 | See Source »

After the unprecedented run in the Buzz Classic, the Crimson could not avoid a letdown. Harvard (7-13) went 1-5 in three doubleheaders through the rest of spring break...

Author: By David R. De remer, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Softball Takes Second Place at Buzz | 4/2/2001 | See Source »

Stone said superb goaltending by the opposition, rather than a mental letdown on Harvard's part, contributed to those two losses...

Author: By Elijah M. Alper, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: W. Hockey Could Secure Top Playoff Seed With Sweep | 3/2/2001 | See Source »

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