Word: lame
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...film, cut it by a third, hired a hack to shoot a new ending. He was now "Hollywood's youngest has-been," condemned to haunt Hollywood and other film capitals till he died looking for work. People knew him only as the fat man, a butt of lame jokes. Unable to finance his dream projects (including a film about the making of The Cradle Will Rock), Welles earned eating money as a narrator and pitchman. He ended as he began. The Voice. The Shadow...
...Most of my time does go to sports," women's swimming co-captain Laura Koerckel says. "It sounds lame, but I go home whenever I can; my dad's in the area. I visit friends...
Lately, however, Comedy Central has moved beyond lame one-liners and developed a series of signature hits. Among them: Bill Maher's irreverent roundtable Politically Incorrect (whose ratings have climbed 40% in the past year); Mystery Science Theater 3000, the perennially inventive spoof of bad old movies; and the endlessly rerun cult favorite from Britain, Absolutely Fabulous. Riding such successes, Comedy Central has tripled its subscriber count, to 36 million households, and today it reaches a higher proportion of affluent, educated, 18-to-49-year-old viewers than any other network on broadcast or cable...
...homogenized fare that characterized TV seasons past--and can still be enjoyed on Nick at Nite if one is so inclined. (But is there honestly any reason beyond nostalgia, graduate theses in popular culture or a lingering taste for boyhood erotica for anyone to watch the painfully lame Bewitched or I Dream of Jeannie?) The easygoing suburban blandness that Nick at Nite dines out on was owing to the fact that network TV was once the massiest mass medium ever invented. It still is, of course, but thanks to the increasing sophistication of audience-measuring "science," networks have learned they...
...Generation X musings seem perfectly dead--or at least you wish they were. Douglas Coupland always struck you as lame and were it not for a single term he co-opted, he would be utterly irrelevant. Yet the subject still crops up. Now Generation X is embattled by its own constituents who protest that no, they really are not lazy, cynical and inarticulate, and that (yawn) life does have reaning...