Word: letdowns
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...letdown is especially upsetting because Apocalypse Now seemed the ideal marriage of a major artist to an important subject. Except for Stanley Kubrick, no other contemporary American director is as gifted as Francis Coppola. In his classic Godfather films, he proved that great themes-power, family, violence, love, morality-could be expressed in the richest language of popular moviemaking...
...coach Peter Raymond watched his charges leave the boat in funereal silence, seven seat Pasha Lakhdhir remained on the dock, his feet resting in the boat and his head buried in his arm. The letdown, the sudden drain of adrenalin and the misery of a second loss to despised Yale kept him rooted there for a good three minutes. Finally Raymond's hand descended to grab the hand of his disconcerted oarsman, and the pair walked away from the shell for moment, in the somber aftermath of defeat...
...living quarters. "In those days," recalls Physics Professor John Kidder, "you could go all week without seeing a woman on campus. Then came carnival and women were everywhere. It made the whole place electric." Says another old grad: "You can't imagine the anticipation, the apprehension, the inevitable letdown...
...Harvard women's basketball team, suffering from fatigue and letdown after the Ivy League championships last weekend, dropped its third game in four contests Saturday, falling, 82-79, to South Eastern Massachusetts, at North Adams, Mass...
Smith, a 6-ft. 1-in. freshman, echoed her teammates sentiments about the letdown. "We peaked at the Ivies and we've had some trouble after. We just have to keep the intensity going," she said yesterday...