Word: patheticism
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Punches were thrown, noses broken, and heads looked. It looked like the re-enactment of some pathetic Civil War battle. Some kid even managed to steal a Yale College flag. And dozens of smallish students were chased around by dozens of biggish students. It was thoroughly ridiculous.
-- The elevation of Alfonse D'Amato and Jim Leach to the chairmanships of the Senate and the House banking committees ensures that Whitewater hearings will bedevil the White House for the next two years. The good news: the exposure of the pathetic, somewhat shady attempts to get rich quick will...
What is profoundly disturbing about "Hoop Dreams" is not that its two protagonists will probably fall short of NBA stardom. Rather, it is the particular kind of failure--intractable, cyclical and tragic--that makes the film pathetic.
"It's pathetic--the same thing Bush and Congress had before," said Evan S. Ong '95. "Clinton's name might as well be Bush by now.
But it could only get worse. A projection camera displayed images of SHis Shaqness doing some pretty pathetic karate moves.