Word: lameing
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...Reagan showed yet again why it is foolhardy to underestimate his persuasive powers and prematurely proclaim him a lame duck. Despite the obituaries written after the Republican revolt six days earlier, the most far- reaching tax-reform plan since World War II passed the House last week and was sent to the Senate, which will take it up in 1986. The surprising bipartisan triumph by Reagan and Democratic Ways and Means Committee Chairman Dan Rostenkowski came during the prolonged and hectic finale of a year otherwise distinguished chiefly by the achievement of new levels of fecklessness in dealing with...
...this, but Co-Writer Aykroyd has again neglected to give himself a character to play. So this Road to Armageddon plays more like Crosby and Hopeless. Director John Landis achieves a brisk and funny basic- training sequence, then follows the plot into political irresponsibility. After Hollywood's glut of lame-brained right-wing movies, viewers may welcome a comedy that portrays American military intelligence as a contradiction in terms. But even conspiracy buffs deserve better than this. So do lovers of lowball farce...
...another number, Craig L. Smith and Rosemary Fei dance a tango to Boulevard of Broken Dreams, in which Smith wears a shirt of silver ruffles. "I always dreamed of wearing silver lame, and not many 1-L's get the chance," Smith said...
...like his writings, wait until you see his wardrobe. Though Crisp claims to own only hand-me-downs, he wears them as if they were 7th Avenue originals. He cuts quite a pose in his shiny green and black lame suit, black fedora hat and his longish light purple hair. Though this may not be the type of outfit that will win votes in the Boston area, Crisp is ever the politician...
...haunted house, theater in the shadows. It needs its ugly special effects. Terror depends, so to speak, upon absolute artistic control. But suddenly in the Achille Lauro case, the house lights came up, and Arafat found himself blinking uncomfortably at the audience. No wonder his rhetoric sounded lame...