Word: lamed
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...appear. In Birmingham he showed up to shake hands at the wrong factory gate; in Florida reporters covering him had to pile into taxis-the press bus had disappeared. By the middle of last week he looked desperate ("I'm in trouble, I need your help"), making lame excuses for losing primaries ("We didn't really contest Vermont") and attacking Hart for petty deviations from liberal doctrine...
...stiffest ruling of his 15-year watch, lame-duck Baseball Commissioner Bowie Kuhn last week suspended four admitted drug offenders for one year: Star Outfielder Willie Wilson, First Baseman Willie Aikens and recently released Utility Man Jerry Martin, all of whom played last season for the Kansas City Royals, and Los Angeles Dodgers Relief Pitcher Steve Howe. The first three have pleaded guilty to attempting to possess cocaine (Wilson and Martin have begun serving the unsuspended three-month portion of their one-year prison terms), and Howe has been in and out of several drug-treatment programs under the aegis...
...Menagerie is autobiography in the form of a situation comedy. The first half of the play could be called "Mama's Family": Amanda Wingfield, a fiftyish matron whose husband abandoned her 15 years earlier, plots to find a "gentleman caller" who will support her and marry her shy, lame daughter Laura. In the second half, a young man does call-no gentleman, rather an awkward go-getter whose own glory days are long past-and a bittersweet romance flutters through and out of Laura's life. Amanda, Laura and Tom (Laura's brother and the play...
Victorian writers, observed G.K. Chesterton, "were lame giants; the strongest of them walked on one leg a little shorter than the other." That remark has been amplified by Phyllis Rose in her lively study of five 19th century couples. The title, Parallel Lives, has two meanings: the disparate views of marriage held by husband and wife, and the juxtaposition of twittering romantic expectations and tragic neuroses. Reading Rose's work is like turning a valentine to find graffiti underneath: not a pleasant experience, but a compelling one. The couples could not have been better chosen. Each contains one famous...
...peep has been heard from Washington about the murder of Firmin Joseph. President Reagan still plans to visit Marcos in November, and presumably will praise him as a staunch upholder of democratic principles. Lame requests for the men who murdered Orlando Letelier continue, along with new rounds of economic and military aid. In Manila, in Brooklyn and in Washington, everything is under control. Don Corleone would be green with envy...