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Word: lamer (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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With this recently passed federal law, the FCC has the opportunity to force a change. Unfortunately this is unlikely to occur during the last days of the Bush administration. The act passed into existence unsigned by the president. Considering that Bush's education secretary, Lamer Alexander, is a former board member of "Channel One"--a corporate venture to broadcast television within primary and secondary schools--even this non-action seem amazing...

Author: By Alec Permison, | Title: A Smurfy Law | 11/6/1992 | See Source »

...toothed grin, and the put-off is revealed as a put-on. So to cast Schwarzenegger in comedy is very nearly redundant -- especially when, as with Twins (1988), it offered nothing more than Hollywood high concept: pairing the big guy with scruffy shrimp Danny De Vito. Even lamer is Kindergarten Cop, which opens in the U.S. this week. The film can't even live up to its title, which suggests an hour or so of big bad Arnold coping comically with snotty tykes. Oh, young performers from the Professional School for Kute Kids do get to recite part...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Box-Office Brawn | 12/24/1990 | See Source »

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