Word: letdowns
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...wrestling with the frustration. We have no sense of a 25-year relationship between husband and wife, or of what must have been deep affection between father and daughter. As a result, much of the poignancy of George Riley's plight goes by the wayside. It is an unfortunate letdown of first-act expectations...
Last night, the Crimson avoided the possible pitfall of a letdown against lesser opponents, mustering elan to devastate the two clearly inferior squads...
Harvard suffered an inevitable letdown after it played perhaps its best game of the year last Saturday night, a narrow loss to Penn. Letdown certainly will be no excuse this weekend when Cornell (Friday night at 8 p.m. with WHRB and Channel 25 covering) and Columbia (Saturday at 7:30 p.m. on WHRB) come into town...
Being There is a spectacular balancing act. For almost two hours, Writer Jerzy Kosinski, Director Hal Ashby and Star Peter Sellers keep a single, scorchingly witty joke floating miraculously through midair. Though the joke ultimately crashes to earth too early-about 15 minutes before the movie ends-the final letdown does not spoil what has gone before. Here is a comedy that valiantly defies both gravity and the latest Hollywood fashion. There isn't a single laugh in Being There that owes anything to Animal House...