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Television's second season is that midwinter's madness time when network leaders turn upon their pack of shows. They mercilessly thin out the old, the weak and the lame, while encouraging the newborn to join their endless trek across the TV tundra. This year the second season has produced three newcomers that seem certain to survive into the 1974-75 season. They...
...these earned them the nicknames Batman and Robin, and may once have made fair copy. (The film was extracted from L.H. Whittemore's book about the pair's exploits in the Bedford-Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn in the late '60s.) On screen, though, their heroics look lame. We expect our cops to be either a good deal meaner (Hackman in The French Connection, Scheider in The Seven-Ups) or at least stronger fantasy projections of unwavering strength and authority, like Clint Eastwood's Dirty Harry. Greenberg and Hantz here are neither real enough nor friends. romantic...
...four or five crazy guys" who arranged this record are wags, activists, and any picky Harvard lame-brain who's worth his salt will go batty hunting puns. More than any other Firesign Theatre album, the Rat bristles like a hedgehog with mixed metaphors, malapropisms, and plays on words. Its running gag on cocaine is especially amusing. In short, The Giant Rat is diverting, if facile...
Tight boots? No. She's lame...
...told her he had not been brought up that way, that one concealed one's feelings, kept one's emotions a private thing. He said it with a certain stiffness in his voice, a stiffness reflecting not any feeling that he was offering a lame excuse, hiding behind his upbringing, but reflecting instead a certain pride in having been trained properly in the matter...