Word: unappealingness
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It takes guts to make a movie as bleak and uncompromising as this new Dustin Hoffman vehicle-misplaced guts. The story of a compulsive small-time crook with a lousy past and a doomed future, Straight Time makes a fetish of refusing the audience any frills. The movie aims only...
Dick Young, gifted, didactic and the senior baseball writer in Manhattan, forecast the imminent firing of Billy Martin, the Yankee manager. "Billy had the world by the fine hair, and he has loused it up," Young wrote with consistent, if unappealing imagery.
Alex Haley's discovery of his roots is not a "whatzit"-it is historical drama. It is an unfolding of the Haley family as Alex Haley learned it. Should the idea of a happy African childhood be so unappealing? Should the idea that black men accepted themselves as proud...
The Republicans are lurching toward not only a presidential showdown, but a real dilemma about the second slot. With 1,000 or more Reagan delegates on the floor, the convention is sure to have a conservative set of mind. The President cannot afford to antagonize Reagan, and yet Ford'...
"We were all so alienated. Harvard seemed so foreign to us and Pusey (former President Nathan M. Pusey '28) was such an unappealing figure. We really hated Harvard but at the same time we loved it. The ambivalence could really be gutwrenching," Hollander said.