Word: disappointment
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Chairs Missing. After all, Wire had begun to grow out of their punk youth even before they broke up. However, given the nature of their post accomplishments, an interesting record would suffice. With The Ideal Copy, the band has produced a void to fill a void, which will disappoint old and new fans alike. If you want to discover the truth behind Wire, the reasons behind their influence, check Pink Flag or Chairs Missing. If ultra-cool-progressive-art-dance-rock is your thing, pick up the latest New Order or SWANS 12-inch. But avoid The Ideal Copy...
...Advisor Thomas Hassan, who was a "blue collar kid at Brown," says when he talks to students from low-income backgrounds he is forced to recall his own "experience at a school that was expensive, worrying that my parents had to scrape together the money and not wanting to disappoint them--wanting to do well, finding it hard to admit defeat...
...smile, has built a reputation as a relentlessly thorough prosecutor who works long hours. She likes solving intellectual puzzles; to assemble her cases, she has used masses of records and files that go back for 18 years, records that other prosecutors did not think worth the time. "Blind alleys disappoint some people," she says. "But I like them. You find many interesting doors on both sides as you walk down a blind alley." In 1985 she sent the Justice Department a 100-page memo outlining how Gotti and the others could be prosecuted...
EVERY YEAR, like spectators at a Greek tragedy, the campus watches with a mixture of fascination and pity as the freshman class is asked to participate in a lottery to determine which house they will live in for the next three years--a process guaranteed to disappoint at least one in five...
...biggest fear I have is that we're going to let this game disappoint us," Delaney Smith added...