Word: duds
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...real problem is not with the budgetmaking process but with those who are in charge of it. The Gramm-Rudman- Hollings law was billed as the magic bullet that would blow away both the deficit ogre and the obstacles to orderly action. Gramm-Rudman has proved to be a dud. Overhauling the machinery yet again would help only if its operators were able to muster the will to run it properly. But if they could manage that, no overhaul would be necessary...
...characters and most hallucinogenic images an American filmmaker ever committed to celluloid. His early career traced a paradigmatic arc of hotshot movie eminence, from a $20,000 underground classic (Eraserhead in 1977) to a $5 million Oscar nominee (The Elephant Man in 1980) to a $50 million sci-fi dud (Dune in 1984). Each film had segments of bafflement and spectral beauty. But Hollywood, looking at the escalating price tags and plummeting ticket sales, wrote the director off. So Lynch made Blue Velvet (1986), a magnificent revenge drama -- his revenge on fettered movie conventions -- about small-town life and lust...
...only a matter of time before Blades broke the language barrier, and in 1988 he released his first album in English, Nothing but the Truth. Featuring collaborations with Lou Reed, Elvis Costello and other non- Latin artists, the record made several Top Ten lists but was a commercial dud. "That album pissed a lot of people off," Blades says. "Some people felt I should be the second coming of the Miami Sound Machine. Some people objected because I wrote a rock-'n'-roll song. On the other hand, you had Latino people saying, 'Why are you singing in English? Aren...