Word: lames
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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This year the omens were bad even before the race began. Driver Art Pollard was killed on May 12 during the elimination trials. On race day, a threatening sky did not reduce the throng that turned out to see wonders like Linda Vaughn, a busty blonde in gold lame, parade on behalf of a transmission manufacturer. The racing cars were billboards on wheels, plastered with ads for everything from beer to motor homes...
...tracks the Kid. He gives Billy as much time and distance as he can, but keeps closing on him all the same. Billy rides for Mexico, but then inexplicably turns around. It is never quite clear why Billy goes back. When he does, though, the movie wobbles and goes lame. Peckinpah and Wurlitzer are on much surer ground dealing with the dubious morality of Garrett's decision to hunt Billy. Garrett, unlike Peckinpah's other protagonists in High Country and The Wild Bunch, is no hero. As played-superbly -by Coburn, he is a dead-eyed cynic...
...their best at age two, at the shorter distances, and have been something of a disappointment at three, when they're asked to go farther. Also Bold Ruler was arthritic, and there's a tendency to unsoundness in the family." That means his offspring tend to go lame, early and often. Bold Ruler himself was to die of cancer at 17, which is relatively young...
...body count to get higher." Despite this, Driver does not want to see Nixon impeached, or even implicated further. "I'd prefer to see Nixon kept in office, but with his powers reduced by a more effective Congress," he explains. "We'd have 3½ years of lame-duck drift, that...
...midnight raids that smacked of Nazi Germany, Pakistani police invaded the homes of several thousand Bengalis in Islamabad, loaded them on to buses and trucks and hauled them off to internment camps in northern Pakistan. The victims were all former Pakistani government employees. Officials offered a number of lame explanations, though none for the terror tactics involved in the action. The housing was needed for others, it was said. But the claim was also made that the Bengalis were being taken away "in preparation for their eventual repatriation to Bangladesh...