Word: anticlimaxed
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...sense, the show had been an anticlimax; during nearly twelve hours of figures, Kennedy was seen not at all and Nixon only briefly. And yet, with its incomparable immediacy, TV not only gave the main stream of the returns as it widened between Democratic hope and Republican discouragement, but caught many of the better footnotes to the 1960 election...
...session seemed something of an anticlimax after the first two, and ratings showed that audiences were declining-down to 60 million on the third from 73 million on the first. Physically, Nixon looked in fine form, and he was forceful in his replies. Who won? Increasingly, people seemed to be judging the debating as theatrical performances, and this time partisans of each seemed to think their candidate had won. But the rest of the world had only begun to listen in on the Quemoy-Matsu issue. On Formosa, Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek's spokesmen angrily denounced Kennedy, promised...
...relations with the Dutch. In The Netherlands, his oratory was received with a shrug. After nationalizing Dutch property in Indonesia, driving out more than 90.000 Dutch residents and daily threatening ruin for the 4,000 who remain, Sukarno's snapping of diplomatic relations seemed a bit of an anticlimax...
...grim giantess (who loved him only for his living space) causes Lasik's political doom, and he is finally forced to take it on the lam westward, one jump ahead of the secret police. The rest of Lasik's nonstop global pratfall is something of an anticlimax-but not to Lasik himself. In Germany he is delighted to find that "everyone around him spoke Yiddish, though in a slightly imperfect way." In his lunatic vision, the Weimar Republic becomes a memorable cartoon-rather as if George Grosz had been a Disney animator. On a diet of zwieback, Lasik...
...seven-day siege of Singapore was a classic anticlimax. Cheerful communiques kept the people from knowing that the enemy was on top of them. Only by scanning the latest banking news ("The undermentioned branches will be closed until further notice") had some been able to follow the Japanese advance. With much fanfare, the retreating British blew up the causeway linking Singapore Island to the mainland. "That should stop the little bastards," muttered one officer, who neglected to notice, as the Japanese did not, that the water at low tide was only four feet deep...