Word: lame
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...This campus is lame in terms of opportunities for playing," Preston says. "Harvard doesn't seem to foster a band community...
...Harvard women are considered lame. Hmmm, delicate ground here. Harvard men see a pretty wide cross-section of the Harvard female population. But when they watch Florida State football games on T.V., cameras focus on cute, frosted-blond cheerleaders--not on that school's overworked, disheveled women on their way back from six-hour chemistry labs. And when Harvard men go to parties at Wellesley societies, they tend to meet the self-selected members of such groups, who are also well-dressed for the events...
Clinton's mistake has been to read public anger at Baird's actions as a sign that no one with employee-related problems is eligible for public office. Baird's case was a unique one: her lame attempts to align herself with working mothers by bemoaning the difficulty of finding good child care fell on deaf ears when it was revealed that she and her husband make over $600,000 a year and were paying their nanny less than six dollars an hour...
Fortunately, this lame film didn't come out of nowhere. It was a remake of jean-Luc Godard's 1959 classic of the French New Wave, "Breathless (A Bout de souffle)," showing at the Brattle on Sunday. Although the original lacks the tunes of Jerry Lee Lewis, it succeeds everywhere the remake fails. The 1959 "Breathless" is film noir with a capital N, dark and deliciously scary...
...lame duck, George Bush was flying high and fast -- both literally and symbolically. First he logged 8,000 miles from Washington to Somalia, where he greeted 1993 with troops he had dispatched there a month ago to relieve starvation. The President spent New Year's Eve in Mogadishu and journeyed the next day to Baidoa, in the heart of the famine zone. Then, without so much as returning to Washington to change his shirt, he winged north 3,700 miles to snowy Moscow. There, he and Boris Yeltsin were to sign a treaty that should accomplish the truly radical...