Word: lames
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...gone. It may be that the only way the U.S. can remain a power in space in the face of a strong Soviet manned program and aggressive foreign commercial ventures is if NASA shares the costs -- and the rewards. The question now is whether a policy outlined by a lame-duck President will carry much weight with his successors...
...consistently at his every appearance. Mr. Brazaitis has not noticed this, instead ranting something about "Jesus Christ Super Stud," "hard wood" and "Chinese water torture." I realize it may be arrogant for me, a mere campaign worker, to criticize a newspaper-man's use of such unintelligible images and lame Johnny Carson-style jokes in the place of actual political discourse; nevertheless, this is truly execrable stuff...
Perhaps, you may be saying that I have taken the wrong viewpoint: the question to ask is, what is the best thing about this movie? Well, there are some features of this film that are less lame than the generally acrid level of badness that pervades the filmic vomit that is The Couch Trip. For example, Walter Matthau's hair is, at one point in the film, realistically disheveled: congrats to the hairdresser. Also, there is a brief scene in which the camera lingers on a TV screen featuring Chevy Chase in a hilarious cameo, selling condoms in a commercial...
Baker has a new thought. "Presidents today cannot be lame ducks," he says. "This is a different era than the last days of Dwight Eisenhower. Events are so swift and interrelated. Reagan amplifies that necessary involvement because he is such an assertive person...
Blessed with a private income from his parents in Lancaster, Pa., coddled in childhood, lame, diabetic, vain, insecure and brilliantly talented, Demuth lacked neither admirers nor colleagues. He was well read, his tastes formed by Pater, Huysmans, Maeterlinck and the Yellow Book, and he gravitated to Greenwich Village as a Cafe Royal dandy in embryo. Perhaps the main reason Demuth has not been seen in depth before is that some of the paintings that meant the most to him were not thought exhibitable. For Demuth was homosexual; not a flaming queen, in fact rather a discreet gay, but still loath...