It's where John Osborne was working miserably in rep in the 1950s and Look Back in Anger is probably set there.
In between, Crane is shown working miserably in his wealthy father's candy factory; dancing with his mother; reciting his poem "The Marriage of Faustus and Helen" to an uncomprehending audience; and traveling to Paris, where his inability to pay his check at a cafe gets him roughed up by the staff.
"Should the system that had worked so miserably, yet succeeded, be retained, altered or abolished?" the book inquires.
In his long reign as the face of the Oakland and Los Angeles Raiders, Al Davis had a knack for getting his name into headlines and for controversial moves that sometimes worked, sometimes failed miserably, but always garnered him a great deal of attention.
What has worked -- and failed miserably -- when it comes to navigating the murky world of online dating?
Ariely started thinking about online dating because one of his colleagues down the corridor, a lonely assistant professor in a new town with no friends who worked long hours, failed miserably at online dating.
They tried to hide it and cover it up, but it didn't work — it failed, miserably".
"In the 50s and 60s, there are five people at the centre working very hard, miserably trying to write a book and around them there are 95 people more or less having fun," Greif explains.
Leon's bare earnings kept them "miserably working class," and the family's oldest child, Suzette, moved out of the house as soon as she could, a step that both foretold and encouraged the fraying of the filial fabric: "It was the recurrent nightmare of America, as my parents were experiencing it — a place where children left, and home, instead of being central, became meaningless".
The play failed miserably, and Fitzgerald worked that winter on magazine stories struggling to pay his debt caused by the production.
