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The idea of spoofing the superficial, back-stabbing world of teen pageants seems funny to most critics, but all agree that the execution is abysmal.
Broadway's version of the Academy Awards, threatened with cancellation by CBS after years of abysmal ratings, rebounds with viewers--drawing record Nielsens--but not with critics.
This directive, according to the state's Director of School Education, was meant to improve the abysmal standards of English, both written and spoken, at the school level.
However, no account of the Northwest's soaked misery surpasses that of the great American explorer and abysmal speller William Clark, who recorded his observations nearly 200 years ago.
The lead story bemoans the rise of gigantic publishing houses, the demise of independent bookstores, the unholy marriage of publishing and television, and the abysmal quality of contemporary books: "Today's worst ...