Word: woefulness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...redeem themselves actually qualifies as full- blown resurrection. When owner Jerry Jones bought the team in 1989 and fired coaching legend Tom Landry in favor of Johnson, some Texans were ready to run Jones and Johnson all the way to the Arkansas border. And when Johnson posted a woeful 1-15 record in his rookie season, hanging was held to be too humane a fate for the interlopers...
...same could be said for the Ivy Leaguers, who denied the Japanese access to the end zone during the game. Doing what seemed unthinkable during his team's woeful winless season, Brown quarterback Bill Pienias (two TD passes) took the opening drive deep into Japanese territory...
...intent is to stabilize the African country by supervising an agreement to end 14 years of civil war, disarming rival factions and organizing an election. One small problem: although $330 million has been earmarked for the operation, the cash is not yet in the coffers and, given the woeful state of the U.N.'s balance sheets, no one quite knows where the money will come from. The new force will bring the number of blue-helmeted troops deployed around the world...
...Civil War (Lincoln's early life is covered only briefly in flashbacks), the series seems unduly repetitive of Burns' work. The writing is uninspired (on the Battle of Gettysburg: "It was the showdown of the war. Whoever won here might well claim victory overall"). And there is a woeful shortage of analysis. Significantly, one element of The Civil War that the Kunhardts did not copy was the use of historians to provide onscreen commentary. They are missed. We get plenty of piquant details about Lincoln's personal life -- his fits of depression, his estrangement from his ( father, his big feet...
...tempting it is for a star-spangled American patriot to view Europe's growing Bill-and-Hillary fascination as proof that the world still needs a strong and resolute U.S. Europe's woeful incapacity to stop the near genocidal carnage in Bosnia buttresses this argument, as do the American troops whose orders read "Somalia." Yet imagine the reaction if the new Democratic President were someone older and grayer, a Walter Mondale, say, or a Lloyd Bentsen. An aura of anticipation? Unlikely. Rather, the likely response would be a halfhearted shrug at business as usual in the global amphitheater...