Word: woefulness
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...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...
...this year's Quakers are anything but woeful. Penn has already posted two wins--over Columbia and Yale--a feat it did not accomplish until its 24th game of the season last year. Penn's last game was a one-point loss to second-place Cornell...
...pomp and cheese-en-stance that was Super Bowl XXXI was the story of a career revived. And it wasn't aging funkmaster James Brown's. Ditka confirmed Monday that he will return to the sidelines next season as head coach of the New Orleans Saints. The perennially woeful Saints obviously hope they have landed the Coach Ditka of old, the Ditka who, it was said on Saturday Night Live, could beat the Giants single-handedly, even miniaturized to a height of twelve inches. In ten years, he led Chicago to a 112-68 record, six NFC Central titles, three...
Frustrated by their own football and soccer team's woeful play, well below their expectations, the Princeton fans will come out in full force and as rowdy as possible with nothing more than the hope of playing spoiler to Harvard, their annual rivals...
Instead, I focus on the rest of baseball. As the grass beiges over, and the New York Jets smoothly continue their monopoly on woeful ineptitude, it is time for a reflection on the 1996 baseball season...