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Word: lame (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...awaits; ask yourself again why you wanted to go to India or Ireland in the first place. Go for a beer, go to bed, go do anything rather than cutting and pasting your fun away, because you're supposed to be doing this job for you. It is painfully lame not to at least try to enjoy where you're at here...

Author: By Abigail R. Branch, | Title: Living Deliberately | 5/22/1998 | See Source »

...stuck in the mire of the Lewinsky matter. Germany's Helmut Kohl is facing a September election he may not survive. Japan's Ryutaro Hashimoto is struggling to keep his government and his country's economy from collapsing. Boris Yeltsin is in poor health and is a political lame duck...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: King Of The World | 5/18/1998 | See Source »

...President, what is being a lame duck if not a near-death experience? Why can't he offend the power players? He doesn't need them anymore--unless he's planning to build a really, really big presidential library. He should be going after the producers of drivel, the teachers unions who protect the status quo, the fat cats to whom he apologized for raising taxes. Instead, how about criticizing them for their wretched excess--$1,000 bottles of wine, $250 cigars, Versailles-like mansions? Or reversing the appalling gap between their income and those who haven...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: A Terminal Case Of Telling The Truth | 5/11/1998 | See Source »

...music is too conservative," said KatherineD. Earls '00 of the Eliot fete. "I'm trying to getdown and...to release some tension that's beenstored up writing all these lame papers. I feellike my father in there...

Author: By Pam Wasserstein, | Title: A Night to Remember | 5/8/1998 | See Source »

...still not ambulatory a fortnight ago. The Jungle Book and Lion King shows were getting final tweaks. Dinos in Countdown to Extinction were to be given scarier lighting and infusions of bad breath. The safari ride's story line, about a baby elephant separated from its mother, is lame drama--no match for the amazing beasts on display...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Leisure: Beauty and the Beasts | 4/20/1998 | See Source »

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