Word: letdowns
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Dismissing concerns of a possible letdown after last night's easy triumph, Dooley said he was optimistic about the upcoming Ivy tournament, to begin this Saturday at Bright Center...
Washbrook added, though, that he was not at Harvard to do research so much as to teach. In fact, he says he plans to take on an even heavier teaching load. "I'm quite keen to teach another, more specialized course next year. Otherwise, it would be rather a letdown if you did happen to get interested in this stuff, and there were only introductory courses available...
...concern. Does Sargent signal a retreat from the standards the Whitney has battled for -- the commitment to glitz that gave us the 1985 Biennial, the taste for inflated prettiness set forth in its Alex Katz retrospective, the reluctance to edit that made Eric Fischl's show such a letdown? True, Director Tom Armstrong valiantly tries to establish a link by pointing, in a catalog note, to Sargent's "highly expressive manner and his treatment of subject matter and narrative content, all of which are of great interest to contemporary artists." However, Sargent's "manner" was not that of a neoexpressionist...
...auction, held at motels in Fresno one day and Sacramento the next, attracted overflow crowds of farmers and agribusinessmen, but the results were something of a letdown for BankAmerica. Successful bidders paid only 76% of the appraised value of the land on average, and six of 23 parcels went unsold because no one was willing to make the minimum bids that had been set. The $3.8 million raised by the auction was "less money than we had hoped for," admitted BankAmerica Vice President H.G. Weichert. But at his institution these days, every little bit helps...
Which is not to say that the stadium celebration was a complete letdown. For the most part, the gallery of stars, undergraduates and Cambridge youths, provided as entertaining an evening as could likely be expected from the oldest institution of higher education in this country...