Word: lameing
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...familiar one. In A Thousand Clowns, Scenarist Herb Gardner created Murray Burns, the same avian specimen ostentatiously hiding his self-pity in a cloak of jokes. Georgie is a blurred replica of Murray, surrounded by the same narcissistic suffering and arriving at the same lame insights: "Time is not a thief; he's an embezzler, juggling the books at night so you don't notice anything's missing...
...Perhaps more significantly, two more Green Beret teams were sent out in the field last month, this time crossing state borders. One twelve-man team is currently in the hamlet of Glenn Springs, S.C., 13 miles southeast of Spartanburg; and a 26-man unit is running a project at Lame Deer on the Tongue River Indian Reservation, home of the Northern Cheyenne, in Montana...
...first is that at the time of the meetings, he was not in fact President. He was necessarily being careful not to infringe on Pusey's lame-duck privileges...
...cover of Sticky Fingers, for instance, is a picture of the groin of somebody's blue jeans and has a real live zipper. The big joke is when you pull the zipper down, you get to see the guy's underpants. Pretty lame...
...book, for instance, is a warm, wobbly tale about a reclusive young man who works in San Francisco in a library for unpublishable books. It is Brautigan's happy idea that life's losers, an astonishing number of whom seem to be writers, can bring their mad, lame manuscripts to this library, where they will be welcomed, registered and placed lovingly on shelves. The books will not be read, but they will be cherished. The need for such a library is evident in the librarian hero's sampling of books received...