Word: lames
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...showdown pitted a lame-duck President looking to make a dramatic stand against a Congress determined to impose its will. As the Senate prepared to vote on the omnibus trade bill last week, President Reagan vowed to veto the package if the lawmakers did not remove a provision requiring that companies give workers 60 days' notice of plant closings. But the House had already passed the bill by a veto-proof 312 to 107, and the Senate was not about to back down. As the Senate's Democratic leaders struggled on Wednesday to line up votes and woo as many...
...thorough and exhaustive search by President Bok for a replacement. Yet the timing also raises a thorny question: what will happen to the Law School for the next year and a half. Power struggles and coalition voting have already been the norm and will surely intensify under a lame duck dean. The Law School needs direction soon, and Vorenberg's delayed resignation until next year will only make answers harder to find...
...theatrical comedy goes, Neil Simon's Fools is pretty lame stuff. Why would anyone aspire to write a play such as this unconscionably trite piece of drivel? And why would anyone choose it for performance before a Harvard audience? Our campus has simply not been so blessed with performances of really worthwhile theater that anyone should be looking to put on self-consciously third-rate works, however well executed...
...spirit, all these blockbusters -- among the top grossers in movie history -- were closer to the cartoon classics than the late-'70s Disney product was. Without its founder, the studio floundered, producing modest cartoons, lame sequels and sci-fi thrillers without art or heart. However conscientiously Ron Miller ran the shop, he was no match for Lucas and Spielberg. As if by osmosis, these young outsiders had learned the master's lessons of film artistry and audience manipulation. Miller was Disney's son-in-law, but Lucas and Spielberg were Walt's true heirs...
...film thinks like Redford too: its passionate humanism is laced with wry. For Redford is not only Hollywood's last hero. He is a benevolent movie mogul, using his Sundance Institute to finance noble independent films in the pastoral mode. Alas, most of these films have been lame and prissy. Perhaps one reason Redford made Milagro was to show the young directors at Sundance that a well-meaning film can also be a good movie...