Word: woefulness
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With money flowing in from Graceland, EPE could afford to turn its attention to a thornier problem: controlling Elvis' name and likeness. Earnest collectors of Elvisabilia remember the late '70s and early '80s as a woeful time when shoddy gewgaws--Elvis toenail clippers, vials of "Elvis Presley's Sweat"--were sold with impunity and by companies that paid no licensing fees to EPE. At issue was what is known as "rights of descendability of publicity"--legalese for the ability of a famous person to control the use of his or her name and likeness. Existing law, while not entirely clear...
...massacre over woeful Vermont in Harvard's last game of the season could do little to repair the damage the sputtering Crimson had done in late April and early May. This season was terribly anticlimactic compared to Harvard's gallant march into the NCAAs last year...
...results of the indoor H-Y-P meet was deja vu from the fall. The men placed third behind first-place Princeton and second-place Yale, and the women placed second behind Princeton and a good 13 points ahead of the woeful Elis. Fortunately for the men, they would exact revenge on Yale at Heps a few weeks later...
...might be better if this woeful memoir had been a novel; its tone of hysterical self-obsession might pass as fiction. But Kathryn Harrison has already drawn on the theme of adult incest in her 1991 novel, Thicker than Water, to no great reverberance, so in The Kiss (Random House; 207 pages; $20) she tries the currently fashionable route of confession. Hers: an affair with her father...
...BOOKS . . . THE KISS: "It might be better if this woeful memoir had been a novel; its tone of hysterical self-obsession might pass as fiction," notes TIME's Martha Duffy. But Kathryn Harrison has already drawn on the theme of adult incest in her 1991 novel, Thicker than Water, to no great reverberance, so in The Kiss (Random House; 207 pages; $20) she tries the currently fashionable route of confession. Hers: an affair with her father. Harrison?s preacher father was kicked out of the house by her mother and grandparents when she was tiny, and she had almost...