Word: woefulness
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Thanks for your piece on the woeful world of the freelance writer. It's comforting to find that someone knows we're out here, forever (God knows why) hunting and pecking for peanuts. Which leads me to my next point. I've got this great story idea...
While it did not match the flood in concentrated devastation, the heat wave caused woeful damage. In Minneapolis, about a hundred marchers and spectators at a summer parade were treated for heat prostration. With the heat wave came an atmospheric inversion that sent air pollution indexes soaring in many cities. The result: New York's weekly death rate jumped by nearly...
...choice or by assignment, are hopeful that life there will be as good, if not better, than life at the River Houses. By discovering the advantages of the Quad and trying to solve its problems, they are determined to make the most of what could otherwise be a woeful situation. Maybe that dreaded spring lottery does not make or break life at Harvard after...
...hope that this incident will enable people to recognize the woeful state of affairs between men and women at this institution. Perhaps some of the misguided intelligence of the student body could be redirected towards attaining more sensitive, humane relationships with the members of the opposite sex. We hope that these relationships will be based on a more mature understanding of the emotional, sexual and intellectual needs of men and women. Nick Goldberg '80 Benjamin Chereskin...
...Garry, Amy Aquino, and the three clownish waiters provide a fine atmosphere as the surly character actors in this sleazy Italian cafe; Skip Mendler is a nicely crotchety old man. Three in this cast, however, seem bent on annoying the audience--Jonathan Prince with his woeful mugging, Caryl Yanow with her too-stiff innocence, and Lisa Popick with a laugh of practiced exaggeration that ceases to be funny the second (let alone the twenty-second) time it is done. George Hamlin leads this production, rescuing an inexperienced cast with rigourously detailed direction. One gets the impression that he has told...