Word: duds
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...convention I go to a party thrown by Lion's Gate Productions to boost its big hopeful, "Who Wants to Date a Hooters Girl?" The promotional literature proudly announces that it is "the only branded dating show in television." To boost sales of the show (sample segments: "Stud or Dud?" "Know Your Hooters") the producers have shipped in a clubload of the identically clad gals from the Vegas branch. In the course of my investigation I chat to several of these girls in their tangerine hotpants and tight white crop-tops. (Tough work, but I can take...
...than almost any other white politician I've ever seen. He's got the culture down; it's not phony. But sometimes his racial program was lousy. He's been very timid about appointing blacks to the federal bench. The race initiative, well intentioned as it was, was a dud. I still think welfare reform was unnecessarily brutal. In the end, his racial program came down to a mild defensive stance on affirmative action, the appointment of some high-profile people in the Cabinet and to lower federal jobs, being wonderful in black churches and playing golf with Vernon Jordan...
While the firm maintains it should have a role in shaping the study's analysis, the scientists--whose findings indicated the HIV vaccine was a dud--said scientific freedom was their guiding principle...
...juggle his class preparation, graduate students and writing books. (I even knew when she came down with the flu because it meant she was a day or two late with her comments on a paper I'd submitted.) But while the course was cerebrally engaging, socially it was a dud. Discussions, a series of time-delayed postings on message boards, were stilted and there were almost no opportunities for class bonding. The only rite of passage I endured was my first Internet chat session...
...fall-fashion season in Cambridge, and the ever sartorially-challenged John Harvard is back in the Square arrayed in the latest imperial duds. The "dud" to which I refer, of course, being the building proposed for Mt. Auburn Street between the Fox Club and J. Press (News, "Harvard Architecture Stands As a Testament To the Times...