Word: lamed
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...seduced by the lady's wealth and vulnerability. And then -- can you hear it coming? -- his child is kidnaped. The cop must wake up to his duties and rely on his wife's cunning to help outwit the killer. Ironically, this exercise in high style may have gone lame with audiences because of its accidental echoes of Fatal Attraction. It's too close, but without the kick. Scott lays an abstract '40s feeling on an '80s theme and gets lost in the mists of film noir...
...confirmation process. Given the gauntlet that Bork had just run, the statement seemed gracious but a little naive. Given what is now known about Ginsburg, it was foolhardy. In the wake of his withdrawal, few were talking publicly about the long-range implications of the embarrassment. A lame-duck President who has been buffeted by scandal, a stock-market crash and the bruising defeat of his first court nominee could ill afford this latest fiasco...
Reagan's tepid and grudging reactions -- reluctant and uncomprehending -- confirmed a suspicion in many minds that Reagan, a lame duck with 15 months to go in his second term, was presiding over an Administration bereft of ideas and energy. It was a custom a generation ago for people to remark, "Well, we must trust the President in that decision -- he has more information about it than we do." No one says that in the second term of Ronald Reagan. In fact, one unstated anxiety during the stock-market crash was that Reagan would inadvertently say something to make the panic...
...index exchange fell 1,096 points, the third biggest loss ever. But after the slide, the Nikkei climbed by 731.15 points on Friday, its third biggest rise ever, and an additional 563.87 points on Saturday. Controlling the effects of the second-week crash posed a substantial challenge for the lame-duck government of Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone, who hands over power on Nov. 6 to his successor, Noboru Takeshita. Following Monday's precipitous slump, the Japanese Finance Ministry quietly pressured major trust funds and insurance companies to begin a stock-buying blitz. Most complied, says Economist Kinji Yajima, because "management...
...which many critics rank as perhaps the best movie musical of all time. Hal Prince's fluid, expressionistic staging has been so widely imitated that even its slyest devices seem cliched. Although the show's political anthems and music- hall satires throb with emotion, its love ballads are mostly lame -- a weakness that has been heightened by Joe Masteroff's miscalculated rewrite of his own book. Clifford (Gregg Edelman), the American novelist who arrives in Berlin as the Nazis are coming to power and through whom the story is told, is now unmistakably homosexual. His affair with the hoydenish singer...