Word: lames
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...whirled around Henderson, 28, a spare outfielder whom Boston rescued from Seattle last August after five uneventful seasons with the Mariners. He got into the game in the fifth inning only because regular Centerfielder Tony Armas went lame. Reaching for a Grich liner just below the top of the fence in the sixth, Henderson unwittingly boosted it over the wall to give California a one-run lead that became three by the ninth. Twenty-five-year Manager Gene Mauch, 60, the longest and saddest presider in the game, appeared to be on the brink of a smile. "My emotions have...
...sense. The young Peggy Sue is "not herself"; she is older and on the way to being wiser. It is appropriate too that Cage, 22, seems younger, jerkier than his girlfriend, because, being a guy, he is. With his dinky voice and fake teeth, professing ardor in a gold lame jacket or smacking the dumbness out of his forehead, Charlie can endear or exasperate. Cage's brave turn teeters toward caricature, then tiptoes back toward sympathy...
...when the cause is just, Reagan has offered no such help to South African Blacks. Half lame duck, half rabid dog, Reagan has backed into a corner, all alone in his stance for "non-punitive" measures against the Pretoria goverment...
...giving the party momentum as it heads into the '88 sweepstakes. Democrats would interpret a Republican defeat in the Senate as a sign of the public's dissatisfaction with Reagan's policies. An intransigent Democratic majority could thwart the Administration's legislative agenda, turning the President into a genuine lame duck and perhaps stealing some of the thunder from the Republicans in the contest to succeed Reagan...
Families have not completely seized the sitcom field this fall. ABC's Sledge Hammer!, about a trigger-happy cop who talks to his gun, is an earnest but lame attempt to satirize Dirty Harry-type heroes. CBS's Designing Women features a quartet of single friends in Atlanta who run a decorating business together, a sort of pre-mid-life Golden Girls. The show has a good cast (including Annie Potts and Dixie Carter) but an overload of formula gag writing ("Suzanne, if sex were fast food, there'd be an arch over your...