Word: letdowns
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...other band’s second album there would be no chance of them being accused of a sophomore slump. But in light of the niche popularity of their self-titled LP, “Ta-Dah” is bound to be something of a letdown to the fanbase they won with their previous disc of campy, cabaret-inspired pop. It starts off right with a dance track ironically titled “I Don’t Feel Like Dancin’.” Featuring a piano riff co-written and performed by Elton John, the piece...
...that shortly. But first, the audience. TIFF audiences are among the most generous and enthusiastic in the world, but they gave Death of a President only lukewarm applause over the closing credits. They'd been so pumped up, I suspect, that the film itself almost had to be a letdown. Engrossing but not enthralling, Death of a President let the air out of its own balloon. It was hard not to be impressed by the expertise of the intercutting (archive footage, staged demonstrations and fictional interviews), by the seamlessness of the photo-realism and photoshopping. But this cleverness inevitably drew...
...take the No. 1 seed into Sprints a year ago. The 2005 squad blitzed the field during the dual season to snatch the No. 1 ranking in the weeks before Sprints.This dual season was less dominant and more tumultuous, marked both by brilliance in bad weather and an uncharacteristic letdown in the final 20 strokes against Brown.With two dual losses, the Crimson varsity is seeded third behind favorite Princeton and Brown, the surprise of the dual season. Brown ousted Harvard by a seat in a come-from-behind win in Providence, and the Tigers dismantled the Crimson...
...would have been easy for the team to let down, especially in a race against MIT, against whom they were favored. But on a day when the varsity eight’s race was cancelled, the varsity four and novice eight teams did not allow the letdown to happen. The squads took the lead, pushing the Black and White forward for next weekend’s Eastern Sprints. “The race the novice eight and varsity four had,” Antony said, “definitely is moving our team in the right direction coming off last...
...that. Sometimes serious thought about concentration choice does not even occur until after students have put their name to a choice. A wholly inadequate system of non-concentration advising only makes it more likely that students’ time before declaring will not be well spent. But the true letdown about delayed concentration choice is not the likelihood that it will fail to result in more informed choices by students—it is the doors that the later choice closes. In an effort to be more like other schools, Harvard is forgetting to be itself. Harvard has a culture...