Word: lames
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...loan at the bank, for instance, hundreds of smiling girls in black-and-white fur bunnysuits suddenly appear, highstepping wildly to the strains of Yes, Yes, My Baby Said Yes, Yes. And when a sweetly-lisping Eileen loses control of her rowdy charges, she miraculously dons a long silver-lame dress and launches into Love is Good for Anything that Ails You, as her squadron of toddlers tapdances behind her on rows of white pianos. Instead of actually singing, though, Eileen and her chorus mouth the words to an original version of the 30's hit. All the songs...
Preoccupied with making money, living in the "right" apartment building, joining the "right" synagogue, and even making his family look "right" to the neighbors (he would constantly and publicly taunt his lame daughter by claiming she could walk normally if she wanted to), L. J. Odets was an oppressive force on his sensitive young...
...products could be an important first step towards mobilizing public opinion against infant formula. All students should sign the petitions; and students should neither use Nestle products like iced tea now in the dining halls nor buy Nestle products on their own. Likewise, the Harvard administration should abandon the lame excuses it has offered before--that boycotts represent an unacceptable moral stand by a university--when students have urged other product boycotts in the past. Students have a good chance to send an important message to the multinationals and the American government to subservient to their wishes. We urge that...
Both the faculty and students felt that Christmas vacation was a "lame duck period" that breaks down educational continuity, Hilary A. Schneider, a member of the undergraduate council of students, said yesterday, adding that "students are generally pleased" with the calendar reform...
...serious side squirmed and printed a lame editorial claiming the right to publish a rumor that it found "utterly impossible to believe." Many readers assumed that lawyers had cobbled together this apologetic phrase, hoping to mitigate libel damages. Not so, says Publisher Donald Graham, 36. The responsibility was his. Defending the editorial soon became more awkward than defending the gossip item. It infuriated the paper's national desk. As for Bradlee, he disclaimed any part in the editorial and seemed to be reliving the days of Deep Throat; he had been "eyeball to eyeball" with the gossip columnist...