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A case of arrested development

In 2011, a shortened season due to labor disputes between players and team owners, they were 20-46, good (or not good at all, I shall say) for 14th place.

In 2010, they were 23-59, finishing 13th.

A year earlier, they were 26-56, finishing 15th.

The long and short of it is the Wizards are not improving as time passes by. They are stunted in growth, so to speak, and keep coming short of fan expectations.

Alright, here are other cases of arrested development in the metaphorical sense:

1. The problem with A Wedding in December, Anita Shreve’s Big Chill-like novel, jumps out at readers from the start: Would seven 45-year-olds drop their lives - after next-to-no contact for nearly 30 years - to attend a wedding of mutual high school friends?

Would a world-renowned concert pianist be able to abandon his performance schedule to fly to the other side of the world for people with whom he's had virtually no relationship with for decades? Would he even want to?

Such is the implausibility problem underlying what is otherwise a pleasant and compelling-enough story.

Seven former high school classmates meet up - after almost three decades apart - for the wedding of Bridget and Bill, two of the group who were high school sweethearts separated at youth and are back together. The wedding serves as the catalyst for the reunion, made more poignant because Bridget has breast cancer.