Word: patheticism
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What they should trade one of these out-fielders for is a pitcher--three or four pitchers, for that matter. Boston's league-leading activity should not obscure the fact that its pitching staff ranges from erratic to pathetic: the team tends to win games by scores like 11: 8...
For the same reason, Penn makes it difficult to form judgements about the people on the screen. The guilty ones are nice folks: innocent bystanders are mean and pathetic--the only morally objectionable acts are filmed impersonally, and we don't see the faces of the murderers. So Moseby's...
Among the personalities lately subjected to runaway inflation, none is more pathetic than Judy Garland. Along the parabola that describes her career, Garland made 37 films. Only a handful are memorable and only one, The Wizard of Oz, is a classic. But she gave more than 100 concerts and broadcasts...
Her anonymous narrator, a woman living alone in an unidentified city, finds herself existing in a kind of end-time-an apocalypse disguised by understatement. Other tenants are quietly abandoning her apartment building, joining the migrant tribes that suddenly appear, briefly camp, and just as suddenly move on "to the...
In the same ways, the white heroine Janie (Hilary Jean Beane) is the most pathetic of all. Bullins has drawn a masterly portrait of a befuddled, innocent, college-educated liberal. She professes to admire the poems of Monty (Adeyami Lythcott), her eventual rapist. But it is clear that she is...