Word: letdowns
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Blanche DuBois. But Previn's well-bred score barely hints at the dark crosscurrents of obsession and desperation that made Tennessee Williams' play so naggingly memorable. This slow-moving Streetcar is tonal but tuneless, sometimes violent but never sexy. Even the bluesy bits are oddly polite--an unexpected letdown from a composer-conductor who plays first-rate jazz piano on the side. Let's face it, Williams' lush prose needs no music: it is its own opera...
...were on such a high during the Yale game that it was difficult to get up for this game, and consequently we had emotional letdown," junior goalie Anne Browning said...
...that she had had all of her clothes off, but that he only had his shirt off and that she had given him oral sex and they kissed and fondled each other and that they didn't have sex. That was kind of a little bit of a letdown...
...positive side of the game is that the team got a letdown out of their system without having it hurt them. Against a better team they might have lost...
...superior team, Harvard will have to guard against a letdown. However, the bottom line is that the Crimson is propelled by the knowledge that it can't afford to lose. The fun of beating Old Eli is only an added bonus...