Word: lameing
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...didn't want to give her a certificate or something lame," DeBlosi said...
Eaton, now a lame duck, had basically surrendered Chrysler's power base. As Stallkamp had feared, the announcement undercut the Americans' influence with the Germans. He "abdicated," in the words of a DaimlerChrysler official. At a top-management seminar in Seville, Spain, last December, Eaton delivered a passionate speech on the new company and how its leaders had to band together to make it work. The oration left even Schrempp uncharacteristically at a loss for words. But by February the Germans were referring derisively to the speech as "Eaton's farewell...
Anthony says there are still many stereotypes in the media about Latin performers. The other day, he recalls, he was watching 25 Lame (an MTV show about bad videos), and one of the hosts kept putting on a sombrero when a video by a Latin artist came on. Anthony also feels there's not enough effort put into promoting more traditional forms of Latin music...
...Elsewhere, Lucas uses the old movies with less trite but equally lame intent. Qui-Gon needs to appear wise; thus, Lucas puts him in the back of a sea-pod cockpit, murmuring confident wisdom ("There's always a bigger fish.") just as Kenobi once presided behind Han Solo's pilot seat. Jabba's dancing girls return as masseuse-extras in a Tatooine hanger, once again serving to sprinkle Lucas' archetypal myth with just enough sexiness to be annoying...
...only does the project of a prequel seduce Lucas into gossiping about his own characters, but his merchandising franchise brings his universe even lower: the army of laserbolt statistics and shallow Silmarillion-esque histories that he has spawned have chanined and tempted him into lame storytelling. The entire franchise now seems to bend over backwards, ugly and vacuous, in order to provide all these salivating "fans" with satisfaction...