Word: lames
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...MUCH of too many good things spoils Sununer Lovers, which despite a lame plot could have been a pleasant $4 tour of Greece's gamiest nude beaches. But Director Randal Kleiser, now the undisputed king of schlock summer flicks, has lost all sense of moderation, and this film quickly becomes boring and annoying...
...Madrid must make tough decisions to help the floundering economy. He will have to continue the 17-point austerity program belatedly begun by the lame-duck Lopez Portillo administration. Among the targets: a reduction of the government's budget deficit from 15% of the G.D.P. to 3% by the end of 1985, import restrictions, government hiring freezes and probably a hike in Mexico's heavily subsidized energy prices. The current price of gasoline...
AGAINST THESE RATHER lame justifications for secrecy, there are some very compelling reasons that instances of sexual harassment should be publicized. Most important is the chilling deterrent effect such publicity would have on future cases of sexual harassment. A crucial factor in discouraging crime is the presumption that it will be punished. As long as the punishment for sexual harassment is kept secret, it will deter no one Harvard could be holding up Walcott as an example, censuring him, and forbidding him any future affiliation with Harvard, as a stunning example to all professors teaching fellows, and administrators that molestation...
...under the spell of the Devil, Nick Shadow (Baritone Istvan Gati). Abandoning his sweetheart Anne Trulove (Soprano Cecilia Gasdia) for the fleshpots of London, Tom sinks ever deeper into degradation until he finally goes mad and is committed to Bedlam. In Russell's production, Tom sports a gold lame suit and a Sony Walkman. Baba the Turk, the bearded lady whom Tom marries, is a blind pop celebrity in a bright red dress whose comings and goings are recorded for posterity-or at least the evening news-by the watchful electronic media. Nick-who changes costumes...
...long, terrible war is reduced to a lame pun; death, rape and torture become narrative incidents, useful for advancing the plot. Meanwhile, Susan and Fenwick congratulate themselves on how well they are living and writing their novel. "My hat is off to us," Susan says. "Well done, us." She leads cheers for her husband's sensitivity: "That's some intuition you had there on that rampart." Fenwick returns the compliment: "What a teacher you are, Suse. No wonder your students fall in love with...