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Word: lameness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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Despite his unclear speech, Cooper brilliantly portrays Mr. Engstrand as a crotchety, aged carpenter with every-moving eyebrows, a lame leg, and discomfited facial expressions. Although by he is her father, Engstrand's ill-mannered ways and frequent machinations lead Regina to despise...

Author: By Mark Zelanko, | Title: Family Life Haunted by Ghosts | 1/30/1992 | See Source »

...within its first year, rent control, which has evolved into Cambridge's political litmus test, was repealed by a lame duck city council in a stormy public meeting. Days later, when the new council took office, the system was reenacted, and pro-rent control candidates managed to hold five of the council's nine seats throughout the 1970s and 1980s. Since 1989, six of the councillors have been prorent control...

Author: By The CRIMSON Staff, | Title: Heading to Court | 1/22/1992 | See Source »

...Pretty lame...

Author: By Michael R. Grunwald, | Title: JFK: The Untold Story | 1/15/1992 | See Source »

...DOCUMENT in question, I am pleased to report, was not my Harvard application. It was the Harvard application of a guy by the name of John F. Kennedy '40. And Light was right. It's pretty lame...

Author: By Michael R. Grunwald, | Title: JFK: The Untold Story | 1/15/1992 | See Source »

FATHER OF THE BRIDE. In 1992 the middle class deserves a good cry over something besides the recession, so why not a wedding? Well, because this soppy comedy is pretty lame, despite the efforts of Steve Martin (Dad) and the easy charm of Diane Keaton...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Critics' Voices: Jan. 13, 1992 | 1/13/1992 | See Source »

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