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...they'd really rather be home in bed," she snipped. As for Jackie: "Usually when you try to smile all the time that way, your teeth get dry, and your lips stick to your teeth. How does she do it?" The whole evening was "an enormous letdown," concluded Quinn. "Nobody really has a chance to talk or mingle with any of the celebrities. Only the hard-core climbers are going to hover around Jackie or the other biggies." Sic simper, Sally...
Moments after B.C.'s freshman guard Ernie Cobb had turned a perfect evening for Harvard basketball loyalists (all 23 of them) into the team's fourth consecutive defeat, Coach Tom Sanders was asked how he planned to offset the letdown which would probably ensue after his squad's emotional performance that evening...
...have a letdown," Sanders inquired, "when you didn't win anything...
Mixed Results. With that kind of buildup, a letdown was almost inevitable. "Impossible expectations have been raised," Physiological Psychologist Neal Miller of Rockefeller University, a leader in feedback research, told a New York symposium last week. Indeed, actual gains have been modest. Researchers have helped some incontinent patients to gain control of their urination and defecation through biofeedback. Among other researchers, Dr. John Basmajian, a professor of anatomy and rehabilitation medicine at Emory University, reports success in eliminating foot drop - difficulty in raising the foot while walking - though efforts to extend the technique to cerebral palsy victims have failed...
Lester acknowledged that the thought of returning to the routine of society contributed to the letdown...