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Perhaps, you may be saying that I have taken the wrong viewpoint: the question to ask is, what is the best thing about this movie? Well, there are some features of this film that are less lame than the generally acrid level of badness that pervades the filmic vomit that is The Couch Trip. For example, Walter Matthau's hair is, at one point in the film, realistically disheveled: congrats to the hairdresser. Also, there is a brief scene in which the camera lingers on a TV screen featuring Chevy Chase in a hilarious cameo, selling condoms in a commercial...
Baker has a new thought. "Presidents today cannot be lame ducks," he says. "This is a different era than the last days of Dwight Eisenhower. Events are so swift and interrelated. Reagan amplifies that necessary involvement because he is such an assertive person...
Blessed with a private income from his parents in Lancaster, Pa., coddled in childhood, lame, diabetic, vain, insecure and brilliantly talented, Demuth lacked neither admirers nor colleagues. He was well read, his tastes formed by Pater, Huysmans, Maeterlinck and the Yellow Book, and he gravitated to Greenwich Village as a Cafe Royal dandy in embryo. Perhaps the main reason Demuth has not been seen in depth before is that some of the paintings that meant the most to him were not thought exhibitable. For Demuth was homosexual; not a flaming queen, in fact rather a discreet gay, but still loath...
Chris, a skinhead who attends Metheuen High School, explains his concept of skinhead life. "The basic idea is I live in a lame town. So we come here and have...
...California Political Scientist Nelson Polsby, "he must deal with people with whom he is in disagreement. The smartest way to proceed is to behave cooperatively toward Congress." Stuart Spencer, a former Reagan adviser, would counsel the President to pick his battles with the Congress carefully, recognizing that as a lame duck he has precious little political capital to spend. "If he goes to the mat on every issue, he is going to have more problems," Spencer says. Congressman Richard Cheney of Wyoming warns against any grandiose attempt to recapture the past glory of Reaganism. Says...