Word: patheticism
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The other main character in the novel is a teen-ager with growing pains, probably included for the sake of young viewers. Wesley Crusher, who gets to work on the bridge, is a pathetic boygenius angry because he is not treated like an adult by the rest of the crew...
The Crimson shot 2-for-8 from the field and a pathetic 2-for-6 from the line during Penn's winning run.
The same cannot be said of intravenous drug abusers, who are generally oblivious to educational campaigns about the risk of sharing needles. "Either the message is not getting to them," says Moss, "or it's not getting to them in a way they can understand." Despite the specter of AIDS...
DINNER AT EIGHT The classic dawn-of-the-Depression satire was hauntingly revived by New Haven's Long Wharf Theater. A superb cast of 24 included Elizabeth Wilson as the pathetic social climber and Charles Keating as the broken-down actor immortalized on film by John Barrymore.
The chief sinner is Williams. When the slave Lucky makes a long, anguished speech, a flux of debased knowledge, Williams enacts the audience's presumed boredom at having to think. He scampers. He pounds the ground. He thrusts a big bone into the slave's hands as though it were...