Word: lames
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...both of whom inherited the presidency, and "make it on his own." He may also have wanted to assure Republican conservatives, some of whom only tolerate Rockefeller, that Ford intends to head the ticket. Whatever the case, the declaration erased any weakness he might have had as a possible lame-duck President in his dealings with Congress and the Republican Party...
Perhaps best known until now for the score of Shaft, Isaac Hayes here follows Three Tough Guys with another lame shot at establishing some kind of on-camera identity for himself. The vehicle he has chosen is a numskull cops-and-robbers piece about a skip tracer (someone who hunts down bail jumpers). Hayes forsakes his rock-performing wardrobe of bare chest wrapped in chains to slop around Los Angeles in a variety of Levi outfits, glowering, guzzling cans of Coors and ferreting out various criminal types. He is called Truck because his methods usually carry a certain violent impact...
UNTIL MONDAY, arguments that tyranny and repression by the military junta in Greece were matters for Greeks to resolve internally provided convenient, if feeble, justifications for continued American aid to Greece. But even these lame excuses were brutally destroyed this week when the popularly-elected Cypriot government of Archbishop Makarios was overthrown in a coup directed by the Athens dictatorship and executed by the 650 Greek officers who command the Cyprus National Guard...
...Even in the '40s, MGM knew that there were different strokes for different folks. Esther Williams could do them all, in a series of swimming-pool epics that for elaborate waste of money, have been unmatched since the days of the Regency. To watch Williams posing in gold lame, rising from red smoke and diving into a cerulean swimming pool is to understand the blessedness of color blindness. For saccharinity like mother used to make, the film offers a series of backyard musicals in all two dimensions- always featuring Mickey Rooney and Judy Garland, always culminating in variants...
...December, 1971, they organized when a lame duck council abolished controls. Under pressure, an incoming CCA majority re-instated the law in January...