Word: lameness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...have appeared in every episode. John Glen, who has helmed the past four films, is just the fifth director in the series. The Bond team hit its early peak with Goldfinger in 1964 and followed up with some snazzy films (Thunderball, The Spy Who Loved Me) and a few lame ones (You Only Live Twice, The Man with the Golden Gun). Eventually, the pictures were faithful only to the titles of Fleming's novels and stories; now each screenplay was an original endeavor. But the basic Bond recipe was merely stirred, not shaken: Do it over, do it bigger, 'cause...
...recovery from the doldrums inflicted by a triple whammy last November: the uproar over his sale of U.S. arms to terrorist Iran, his failure to keep the Senate in Republican hands, and his almost automatic reduction, once the final midterm elections of his presidency were behind him, to lame-duck status...
...incredulous Liman asked the witness why he did not say, "I, Admiral Poindexter, made the decision and did not tell the President of the United States." Poindexter's lame reply: although he gave the notion "a lot of thought," he waited to consult his attorneys. The result, as Senator Rudman pointed out, was "the agony that we've had for the last eight months" as Reagan was battered with questions about his role in the scandal...
...that, some of Thatcher's countrymen clearly prefer the older Britain, slower paced, caring and imbued with a frayed gentility. Even some Conservatives have expressed concern that Thatcher has seemed callous toward the poor and the disadvantaged. For her part, the Prime Minister argues that she has turned a "lame-duck economy into a bulldog economy." Only vigorous growth, she insists, can support the level of social services Britons demand. The election, she said recently, was not a "choice between a caring party and an uncaring one. All decent people care about the sick, the unfortunate...
Skeptics already call it the "lame-duck summit" because so many of the participants are in the waning stages of their elected tenures. There is also worry about lameness of another kind, a fear that the heads of the world's leading industrial democracies may be powerless to make the kind of daring compromises demanded by a perilous imbalance in world trade and by the threat of global recession. Indeed, there are plenty of signs that a gondola ride through troubled waters lies ahead for the leaders of the U.S., Japan, West Germany, France, Britain, Italy and Canada when they...