Word: sub-par
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Harvard’s social scene stereotypically gets pegged as sub-par. Facing a host of regulations that include a 2:00 a.m. shutdown, parties on campus rely heavily on small gatherings in student suites...
...current crop of gay-themed movies like “Brokeback Mountain,” but this flick is far too frothy and fluffy for such a comparison. In terms of tweaking the romantic comedy to accommodate modern notions of love, “Imagine” is rather sub-par. If the writing were crisper and Perabo just a little more compelling, then perhaps this romantic comedy would have been humorously poignant. Instead, it relies upon hackneyed romantic comedy techniques and that damn song “Happy Together...
...hard-working and trusting investors that most of them are. The gut-wrenching comparison that best illustrates that something may be amiss: in 2005, the average diversified stock fund returned 6.7%; bond investors gained under 1%; the average stock rose just 3%, according to market tracker Lipper. Those seriously sub-par returns don't square with a record Wall Street payday...
...once melodic and thunderous, Caribou put on a mesmerizing stage show.All the opener’s strengths only brought the Super Furry Animals’ weaknesses into sharper contrast. The group sounded flat and uninterested, a problem exacerbated by the choice of material, with several tracks from their recent sub-par LP “Love Kraft.” The opening salvo of songs all blended together into a morass of undistinguished low-key Beach Boys homage. The Furries’ trademark has always been their eccentricities, but here the music seemed positively average, and the quirky presentation came...
...would have blamed them for a sub-par performance. Traveling to Rhode Island and Connecticut for the last stops on the most grueling stretch of its schedule, the Crimson co-ed sailing team could have been forgiven for showing some signs of fatigue, despite the importance of the upcoming Atlantic Coast Championships. Instead, however, the team ended its series of marathon weekends with a bang, surging to a second-place finish in the Nelson Regatta at Connecticut College and missing first by only ten points—a performance that could prove to be important for the upcoming...