Word: nadir
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that the hard news of the day was too depressing. The editorial page appeared day after day with editorials against initiation of the House plan (all upperclassmen live in one of 13 Houses near the river or in the Radcliffe Quad). And just when finances were at their nadir, The Crimson found itself with its first real competition since the 19th century...
...connections with the Beach Boys are tenuous; really only a group of friends who, juiced, are wont to slobber through "ba-ba-ba-ba-barbara ann." I've always felt a little sorry for the Beach Boys, because it is their singular misfortune to represent rock at its nadir, the post-payola early sixties. I've also resented the fact that they managed to ride surf music, that most dubious of forms, to fame and fortune. They don't do that sort of thing any more. Brian Wilson can't hear well enough to sing, the whole band struggled with...
...connections with the Beach Boys are tenuous; really only a group of friends who, juiced, are wont to slobber through "ba-ba-ba-ba-barbara ann." I've always felt a little sorry for the Beach Boys, because it is their singular misfortune to represent rock at its nadir, the post-payola early sixties. I've also resented the fact that they managed to ride surf music, that most dubious of forms, to fame and fortune. They don't do that sort of thing any more. Brian. Wilson can't hear well enough to sing, the whole bank struggled with...
THICKER THAN WATER (ABC, Wednesday, 8-8:30 p.m. E.D.T.). The summer's nadir. Julie Harris and Richard Long battle various relatives and each other for the pickle-factory fortune of their crotchety, dying paterfamilias. Harris and Long struggle like a pair of flies in a glue pot trying to wrest laughs from lines about death and pickles...
...film, however, go into financing the "duds." Kirkland's box office successes this year will balance off the financial disasters of last year's East European series. Mankiewicz netted $400 on "The Graduate," just about enough to break even on their previous showings--which had reached a nadir the week before with a showing of "The Fly" to a grand total of three customers...