Word: lame
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...talking to that guy and then he says, 'Gee, you guys weren't so lame this year...
...Hmmm. He tells of staking out the main and only street of Cedar Point, a hamlet's least piglet of a town. The idea is to watch all visible action, dawn to dusk, from the back of his van. But nothing happens. He puts aside as too metaphysical the lame notion that he himself constitutes Cedar Point's action for the day. It rains. That...
...popularity of the Simpsons and other Fox shows at Harvard. It is essentially a safe, easy kind of condescension or snobbism. The kids in Beverly Hills 90210 get mocked for cheesiness, Married With Children for stupidity, Studs for its total idiocy. We laugh at them for being so lame, and our own lives look much better by comparison...
John Singleton's Boyz N the Hood is another slice of fictionalized autobiography: a life story that could have been a death warrant. The boys in the neighborhood must wonder if they have any choice but dying poor from drugs or dying rich selling them. Lame as moviemaking craft, the picture is nonetheless a harrowing document true to the director's south-central Los Angeles milieu; he paints it black. Boyz N the Hood functions both as a condemnation of the world outside any big-city movie house and as an inspiration to those aspiring outsiders who would change history...
...Seattle, Los Angeles bashing has become a marketing tool. Radio commercials for the Puget Sound Bank emphasize the popularity of Seattle-built Boeings over Southern California-built McDonnell Douglas aircraft. TV commercials for Rainier Brewing Co. contrast Beverly Hills-style poodles, prissy food and gold lame leotards with the manifest Northwest manliness of Rainier Light Beer...