Word: lames
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...goes on to criticize those artists who invite interpretation, Bergman, for example, whose "lame messages about the modern spirit" and "callow pseudo-intellectuality" contradict "the beauty and sophistication of his images." Sontag's first experience as a film director, however, indicates a reappraisal of the concrete cultural situation. Duet for Cannibals openly invites the interpretations that are inevitable anyway and uses them as traps, frustrating slaps in the face with each contradiction designed to break us of our interpretive habit (and of our humanist consciousness...
...picture's youngster is Kirk Douglas, 54, playing with an outrageous auburn hair rinse and grinning like a Steinway with 88 white keys. He and the rest of the over-the-hill gang try to bust out of a federal pen presided over by Warden Henry Fonda, a lame graybeard with advanced ideas about penology. These notions are the only flickers of intelligence in the film...
With few days remaining before it officially ceases to exist, the 91st, lame-duck Congress had still wrought no definitive law on the big issues. Locked in a single, unwieldy piece of legislation were proposals for restrictions on trade, increases in Social Security benefits and portions of the Administration's far-reaching reform of the welfare system. Each passing day decreased the already slim chance that they could get through the Senate as a package or singly...
...because they oppress and misdirect their own people. Second, many black people still vote the way their land-owner tells them to vote. Third, Wilcox County is a dry county with a thriving moonshine business. Incumbent white officeholders need only to threaten to bust the moonshine business during their lame-duck period if they are not reelected. Blacks and whites alike depend on moonshine for constimption and profit. So this type of threat is quite effective...
Absentee Problem. While it was the worst, it was not the only defeat Nixon suffered last week as the lame-duck session moved toward its Christmastime end. The Senate Defense Appropriations Subcommittee, turning aside Administration warnings that its $68.7 billion defense budget was already as lean as it could be, cut $300 million from it-on top of the $1.9 billion cut in the House. The full Senate is expected to act on the bill this week. The Administration's housing bill, calling essentially for continuation of existing programs, was defeated; instead, the House passed a bill requiring expenditures...