Word: woefulness
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Dallas is a notable exception to that woeful rule. There, a Texas-style shoot-out is being staged by two local papers: the deeply conservative Morning News (daily circ. 283,700), which used to be dismissed as the Morning Snooze, and the Times Herald (daily circ. 243,500), whose sensational coverage once earned it the sobriquet Crimes Herald. Locked in a struggle to become the best in the booming Southwest, both papers are rapidly piling up prizes as well as profits. At the same time they are proving, as the Times Herald put it in a nationwide help-wanted campaign...
Onstage nearly every minute of the play, James Goldstien wrestles relentlessly with the role of Dysart. When he has a firm grasp on Dysart, Goldstien is very fine indeed, but when he loses confidence, his performance slips into woeful mediocrity. For much of the play, his stiff gestures and forced, dramatic delivery remove all naturalness from his performance, making him look like someone trying toact. When he addresses the audience--as he does frequently--Goldstien fidgets, never quite knowing what to do with his hands. He ruins some of Dysart's wittiest (and in their wry humor, extremely revealing) lines...
...scion of the island's most prominent political family, had made some significant contributions to Jamaica: a minimum wage, free education, equal pay for women, newly built health centers and 40,000 units of low-income housing. But endemic poverty remained, and critics charged his administration with woeful mismanagement. His warm abrazo for Fidel Castro frightened the middle class as well as foreign investors. Soon Jamaica found itself with a severe brain drain and an inability to finance the increased cost of oil imports...
...zucchini jest depends on the pretense that these monstrous garden tumors are edible and on the certain knowledge that in a New Hampshire family, what has been cooked as food, however pulpy and woeful, must be eaten. Woodpiling is a form of boastfulness left over from colonial times, and it consists of erecting in plam sight an unnecessarily large and stately pile of cordwood, with plumb sides and flashy square corners. Such a fortress wrests envy, respect and despair, as it is intended to, from all New Hampshire males and a good many homesteading females who have not yet bucked...
...promise to deliver 49 Kennedy delegates in the separate balloting for 152 seats at the convention. Yet when the votes were counted, both Kennedy and Byrne had been crushed. Carter won by the huge advantage of 758,455 to 349,395 and collected 138 delegates to Kennedy's woeful 14, all from Chicago. Byrne's malfunctioning machine, which the late Mayor Richard Daley had built into the last of the great urban juggernauts, even lost key local offices. Kennedy was beaten not only in black, Jewish and labor districts but also in Irish Catholic areas. Both Byrne...