Word: whimper
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
They say the world will end in a whimper, but the Harvard baseball team's season ended with a bang Saturday...
...HAVEN--Although they began the afternoon with a whimper, the Princeton Tigers record took Saturday in the Harvard-Yale-Princeton Tri-Meet in New Haven to outclass the Crimson and Eli women tracksters...
PRIEST OF LOVE is undoubtedly the longest two-hour movie ever made. Billed as razzle-'em, dazzle-'em intimate portrait of D.H.Lawrence (lan McKellen) and his German wife. Freida (Janet Suzman), the movie is simply a series of bangs that end with a whimper. Director Christopher Miles has apparently confused action with sex, character with caricature. With Priest of Love, he achieves the impossible. He reduces the pathos of Lawrence last years, spent in exile and pain, to a cheap thrill. Lawrence and Freida leave England soon after the British censor. Herbert G. Muskett (John Gielgud) publicly burns available copies...
That is all they do. In Lanford Wilson's off-Broadway hit, the inmates and their equally downtrodden keeper yell, moan, squawk and whimper at each other for about two hours. When the play ends, their home is one day closer to its demise: so are they; nothing else has changed. Because the play has virtually no plot, it relies entirely on its characters to propell it along and keep its audience interested. And because the actors in this Dunster House production make the residents neither believable nor interesting, Hot I Baltimore makes for an almost unrelievedly dreary evening...
...strike, there'll be a public outcry," Michael T. Crehan '81, a leader of the protest efforts, predicted Wednesday. But Harvard's shuttle buses are not part of the Massachusetts Bay Transity Authority, and as the drivers' Monday deadline for a settlement approached, not a whimper of general support for the workers' crusade was heard...