Word: nadir
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Brazil) who hasn't had a Broadway hit in over a decade has done. Deathtrap economically combines two lastditch themes: the playwright-trying-to-write-a-play theme, which sets up worlds-within-worlds and all that twaddle, and the who-can-double-cross-whom-faster theme, the new nadir of the mystery genre, where all guns are filled with blanks, corpses fall to be later resurrected and everyone conspires against everyone else...
...even worse problem is employee morale, which analysts agree is at a nadir. Scott has tried to get employees to change the stores' hidebound ways of doing things, at last allowing local managers some autonomy. The result so far has been confusion. The chain's expensive and somewhat mystifying Price and Pride ad campaign has been aimed primarily not at luring shoppers into the stores but at bucking up the spirits of workers. So far it has failed to spark much excitement...
...pacesetting 30-share Financial Times stock market index reached an alltime high of 549.2, six points above its previous record in May 1972. Profit taking and some unfavorable corporate reports have since eroded prices somewhat; last week the FT index closed at 504.7, still a spectacular rebound from its nadir of 146 in January...
...British fortunes reached their nadir in 1936. The British squad that year included teenage champion John Langley and another schoolboy star named P.B. "Laddie" Lucas, who was perhaps the handsomest lefthander ever to play the game and in later life a Member of Parliament. Despite this typical effort to inject new blood into its corps of golfing ambassadors, the British were shutout that year at Pine Valley in New Jersey by a score...
...overture and this opening number are, to be fair, the nadir of the show. After this, despite the efforts of the orchestra, A Little Night Music has moments of muted sparkle which, sadly, remind us of what a good production might have been like. There are, for example, the performances of Robert Suttton as Henrik Egerman, Fredrik's tormented son, whose passion for the ministry cloaks his passion for his stepmother, and of Caroline Jones, who is genuinely sympathetic as the Countess Charlotte Malcolm. If Charlotte's husband Carl Magnus (Nick Littlefield) is somewhat wooden, his stiffness is forgivable...