Word: badly
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...these defenses, however, contain one implicit assumption: Dukakis shouldn't defend the Massachusetts program on its own merits, because prison furloughs are a bad thing. Even the liberal Perspective chastised Dukakis' stand, saying "It doesn't take an MBA from Harvard to know that giving furloughs to first-degree murderers is a dumb idea...[T]he governor's lack of political acumen on the furlough issue is troubling...
...They weren't prepared to play football. They were in a world of glamour and press. It was just a bad football game and we played worse," said Columbia football Coach Larry McElreavy, after Columbia had its one-game winning streak snapped by Yale this weekend...
...just the tortuous plot that is disturbing. Jacob Press, who plays a doctor specializing in lobotomies, delivers his lines like one of his own patients. Press' imitation of a New Orleans drawl is not only bad, it is also insulting. And it bears a great resemblance to that of a Romanian character which Director Laith Zawawi played in Rope last year...
Ameche walks through the film with sad, bloodhound eyes and a bad hair piece meant to make him look 20 years younger--that is, 60, instead of 80. But he can do no wrong here--and neither can Mantegna or Prosky, who by now can surely play whatever roles Mamet writes for them in their sleep--and here they seem...
Public polls ranged from bad to worse forDukakis, though his aides pointed to what theysaid was a new Harris poll putting the gap at 9points. Barbara Winokur, a spokeswoman for LouisHarris & Associates, said Harris would release apoll today but declined to comment on its resultsin advance...