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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.
Duvall has an abysmal singing voice--gargling and off-key--but his speaking voice, his presence, is insistently musical.
The “popular British film of the 1970s, with Dirk Bogarde, I'm Allright Jack ,’ was, in fact, a popular British film of the late 1950s, I'm All Right, Jack , and Dirk Bogarde, who was off in Hollywood being Liszt in the abysmal Song Without End , wasn't within 3000 miles of it when it was being made.
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.
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.