Word: lames
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...program is approved by the lame-duck Parliament, she will become the first woman to govern Portugal since Queen Maria II in 1853. The chipper diplomat, who is single, is undaunted by that prospect. She acknowledges Maggie Thatcher's political pioneering. "We have always imitated the English," she quipped last week. "After all, we only started liking our own port wine after they...
...having Cronkite or Chancellor escort the news into their homes feel no connection with reporters, even those with recognized bylines, who impersonally fill their front pages. That contrast asserts Arnold Rosenfeld, editor of the Dayton Daily News, often favors TV personalities "who we print journalists think do a pretty lame job of news gathering." If Rosenfeld's paper headlines a local story 3 DIE IN FLAMING CRASH, the paper's spare recital of the facts is "seen as a coldhearted attempt to retail death," says Rosenfeld, while the TV viewer sees "the professionally saddened visage of the newscaster...
...music makes it possible for mellow, laid-back, boring kinds of people to meet each other and reproduce." Marshalling his talents to forge a particularly scathing attack on disco, Frank wrote "Dancin' Fool," which is due to be spun at Boston-Boston any night now. In this song, some lame guy decides he'd rather be a fool and get laughed at than not dance at all. "I got it all together man / With my very own disco clothes,hey! / My shirts half open, t' show you my chains / 'N a spoon is up my nose." What a dummy. Dance...
...Phil Ochs in a gold lame suit never made it, and after a few too many deaths -- the Kennedys, King, Malcolm and Medgar Evers, Allende and Jara--Ochs lost the ability even to try. He pulled himself out of John Train with enough time left to see a few friends. Then, years after he died, he hung himself. In the end, Eliot leaves him with Citizen Kane's epitaph: "it's become a very clear picture. He was the most honest man who ever lived, with a streak of crookedness a yard wide. He was a liberal and reactionary...
...Senate's lame measure comes before the House this week. And there it could be in trouble. A potential majority, composed of Republicans and conservative Democrats, seems determined to enact legislation that would bring the Federal Government closer to balancing its budget. Even if they fail this time, the budget balancers are certain to keep trying...