Word: lame
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...where the swollen Mississippi continued to turn streets into rivers and fields into lakes -- the floodwaters reached record heights and just kept climbing. In the South and the East -- where the temperature hit triple digits in many cities -- weather reporters were reduced to frying eggs on sidewalks and reprinting lame jokes ("How hot was it?" asked the New York Post. "So hot, Grant's Tomb had the front door open"). Even the breaks in the weather were bad. It snowed (in July!) in Colorado, but the white stuff melted too fast in most places to do skiers much good...
These desperate, obsessively repeated evocations of a fouled world are brutally convincing. But they are merely grotesque, shifting stage sets, not the novel's action. And the failing of Operation Wandering Soul (aside from a surprisingly lame title) is that amid all its commotion, not much happens. Kraft and Espera try to have a romance, but they are too benumbed to make it work. Some of the hospital's sick children, not very convincingly, take a Pied Piper skit on tour. The author tells us that his hero is modeled after his own older brother, a surgeon, and sure enough...
...Britain, John Major's public repute is the lowest for any Prime Minister since the country began polling. Miyazawa, following his government's June 18 collapse, is not only a lame duck but probably a dead one. Francois Mitterrand? His Socialists were routed in parliamentary elections four months ago, reducing the shrewd but tired 76-year-old President to a power-sharing role. Helmut Kohl? Three years after his luminous hour of forging German unification, the Chancellor has the lowest popularity among leading German politicians, according to a recent ZDF television poll. About Carlo Azeglio Ciampi, Italy's new stopgap...
Ever since she took her job, Janet Reno has suffered from having a lame duck on her team. A noisy, balky one. The head of the FBI, William Sessions, has been discredited in the job and has lost the confidence of his agents, but refuses to leave. Reno has met with Sessions several times in the past few weeks, apparently to show him the door, but without immediate success. And President Clinton, who is the only one who can fire the FBI director, has not done so. As a result, morale among FBI agents has plummeted at a time when...
...smothering Jewish mother is perhaps the strongest presence in this production. Tasha Blumberg, played strongly by Jessica Fortunate, makes memorable appearances clad in black tights, a tie-dyed lectard and a gold lame top. She's a dancer who just wants her daughter, Janie Blumberg, played by Emily Gardner, to be happy. Janie's happiness is the challenge that the plot of the play follows. She falls in love with a Jewish doctor who is heir to his family's restaurant fortune, but she must eventually choose between staying with him or following her freelance writing career where it leads...