Word: lames
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...back to the Poconos in the 1950s, on a summer weekend when several characters encounter a new love or are reunited with an old one. It would be nice to describe this as a flimsy pretext for a batch of Simon gag lines, except that the gags are too lame even for Simon in a nostalgic haze. One character is a boorish Italian stud with a penchant for malapropisms (he calls Roman gladiators "gladiolas"), and the play's comic piece de resistance is, so help me, a bird's funeral. Simon, like Mamet, is content to trot out his characters...
These overseas tests and humiliations are coming at a time when Clinton has been cast as a lame duck at home--spurned by his party, insulted by his opponents, dogged by scandal every day. He has never seemed so alone. All in a rush last week, the President was thwarted by congressional Democrats, who rejected his full-court press for "fast track" authority to negotiate trade deals, and embarrassed by Republicans, who refused to pay America's $926 million debt to the U.N.--at the precise moment Clinton was trying to put together a U.N.-backed coalition against Saddam...
...final two lines: "How will he keep them all in his head, all the books, all the people, all the stories? And if he does not remember them, who will?" Why God has chosen the 13-year-old Coetzee as designated rememberer is desparately unclear. It's a lame ending to a memoir that skirts, but never directly probes, the author's inner life...
...unlike Clinton ? who, as a lame-duck second-term president can handle an environmental backlash ? his would-be successor Al Gore, who stood at Clinton's shoulder when the Utah national park was created, may have some explaining to do. And as TIME Washington correspondent Dick Thompson points out, he will face even more tests in the future: "In terms of environmental issues, there are lots of things that are higher on the agenda, beginning with global warming, the pivotal environmental issue he will stand or fall...
...remember any sexual escapades that had any impact on what the Army calls "good order and discipline," something we regularly tried and failed to undermine in other ways with such lame schemes as attempting to drive Lieut. Sweeney mad by saluting him lefthanded...