Word: lames
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...squaring off, ram to ram. Not today, not in the world of cold war conversation, where it is judged safer and saner to say nothing and assume the worst than to say the worst and get on with it. Now the insult retreats behind a tinny smile and emerges lame from the mouths of wimps at cocktail parties, grasping soda water in both hands and leveling a whine: "I really don't think much of his work." No confrontations there. Face to face with their adversaries they assault them with flattery. Perhaps it's best. Maybe we could...
...question this fall is not going to be whether to wear it, but, rather, how much of it should you wear." To be sure, lame jumpsuits and sequined evening gowns have been around since Cher was in knickers. For Dede Dolce, 43, a mother of three teenagers from Culver City, Calif., metallics recall the days of sequined Capri pants and speckled harlequin glasses. Gazing into the glittering windows of Saks in Beverly Hills, Dolce muses: "The whole thing reminds me of Palm Springs à la 1950." But the current gilt trip, according to Mirabella, began in the spring...
Pulled hamstrings, suffered by Bott and Willet, the two sparkplugs of the back line, forced them to leave the game and stalled two Crimson drives deep in Bear territory. Bott pulled up lame on a breakaway with five minutes left in regular time, and Willet left the contest moments after his 35-yd. romp during overtime...
...Black group can and should help organize serious and committed political efforts, and should as well sponsor meaningful lecture series or discussions. Even in these areas the BSA's efforts have been disappointingly lame, though. They have attempted to mobilize Blacks at no broader level than the Harvard campus and thus lost the potential mpact of a city-wide coalition of Blacks united on goals that would benefit us all--student and non-student. And over the past year and a half--the lenth of time I've been at Harvard--the speaker and discussion series I've seen have...
...Yale duo of Helen Hyde and Sue Doten might also prove unassailable in the breaststroke events, unless Crimson freshman Susan Kim can slip between them in the 50-yard contest. "New Wave" Kim, a precocious sprinter who dons Devo glasses and a gold lame vest before her races, could also place in the 100-yard individual medley...