Word: patheticism
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Baseball will not heal overnight; the pathetic attendance Tuesday night established that.
Or a pathetic one. Last week began with the spectacle of Akashi standing in the rain at Sarajevo's airport -- closed for aid flights since Bosnian Serbs shot up an American cargo plane on April 13 -- trying to spin into a success his failure to extend the cease-fire between...
Rev. Thomas Vincent (Justin Levitt) invokes the power of God to soothe his troubled parishoners. As he begs for God's mercy, he becomes irate, realizes the pathetic and hopeless predicament of his state. He yells his sermons to little effect, except to grate on the audience's nerves.
Whether you agree with Jackson or not, he is a riveting speaker who makes his points in lucid and direct fashion, and always makes his speeches relevant to current events. Even Monday, in a speech which was low-key by his standards, he kept the audience captivated and focused. Mansfield...
"Bob's Birthday," though just as loved and well-known, unfolds in the more real, though admittedly grotesque world of a work-a-day dentist (the eponymous Bob) who lusts after his butt-scratching, pesticide spraying assistant and helps ruin (if inadvertantly) his own party. Bob's penchant for poetry...