Word: lamed
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...church of Christ. In a South obsessed with Jesus--JESUS SAVES smothers him in neon and print--he tries to rebel by founding his own Church Without Christ and immersing himself in sin. His is a church where "the blind don't see and the lame don't walk and what's dead stays that way." He is humorless in a crazy world, aiming with violent integrity to keep Jesus Christ from controlling his life but simultaneously embracing the guidance--positive or negative--that Jesus offers him. It is a deeply religious story, wryly tragic and depressingly comic as Haze...
...film's tone is confused and predictable: lame slapstick gags (including the inevitable food fight), sentimental bromides about love, and deadly serious (if inexplicit) sex scenes are thrown together without transitions. Even the heroines' slowly developing friendship is sketchily written; it seems to happen offscreen. While McNichol and O'Neal always command attention, the drama they create has less to do with Little Darlings than with the intriguing vicissitudes of show business careers...
...over a highly sensitive document for nearly a month, scrutinizing each word, and then cast its vote in error? Because of a communications gap between Washington and its U.N. Ambassador in New York? Or between the President and his Secretary of State? Carter's explanation was not only lame but incredible. With one swift stroke, he had destroyed the growing notion, so carefully cultivated in this election year, of acting calmly and shrewdly on foreign policy matters...
...govern as if we had a majority," even though the Tories, with 136 seats out of the total of 282, were five short of parliamentary control. Confidently assuming that Trudeau's political career was over and that the Liberals would not dare risk an election with a lame-duck leader, Clark brought out a belt-tightening budget, which Finance Minister Crosbie described as "short-term pain for long-term gain." The Tories did not even attempt to obtain the support of the Créditistes or the New Democrats, which could have kept them in power. When the three...
When Carter used his hot line to send Brezhnev a tough protest about the invasion on Dec. 28, the Communist leader claimed that the Soviets had been invited by President Amin to protect the nation from an unnamed outside threat. It was this lame explanation that an infuriated Carter later denounced as "completely inadequate and completely