Word: lames
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Short on cash? Here's one way to make tens of millions of dollars without even being good at your job! It's simple. First, be MIKE OVITZ. Next get hired by Disney and do such lame work that the Mouseketeers terminate your contract 14 months later. Then you'll rake in almost $40 million in severance pay and 3 million stock options. If you hang on to those until 2002, there's a good chance they'll be worth about $100 million. Otherwise, be good at your job, like Michael Eisner, and Disney will give you a 10-year...
MOVIES . . . METRO: "Eddie Murphy's new cop thriller bears a surface similarity to the early Eddie hits '48 HRS.' and 'Beverly Hills Cop,' but it's lame and lazy, inefficient even as the sort of action machine Hollywood can tool up in its sleep," says TIME's Richard Corliss. "The mandatory car chase is woefully generic; it disregards the laws of physics without raising more than vagrant musings in the viewer. Why, for example, would a cable-car full of passengers be too timid to apprehend the lone bad guy while he's busy wrestling with the hero?" Murphy...
...many years, the American electorate has asked the Federal Government to "get out of our way, please." And since the government didn't listen, we took matters into our own hands. Although the turnout was light, the politicians can read between the lines. You see, we've hired a lame-duck President and a Republican Congress, each of which is unwilling and unable to work with the other. The bottom line is a government that we "put out of the way, thank you!" At last we can expect what we want from the Federal Government: nothing! Well done, folks...
...years Phil Rosenthal pursued his rock-'n'-roll dream without much reward. He moved to Los Angeles. He started a Beatlesesque pop band, Twenty Cent Crush, and signed with the tiny label Not Lame Records. He cut a single, Sunday Girl, that was a hit in Finland, of all places. Stateside, however, his band was nowhere...
...community of the politically obsessed is regular guys and gals, who care more about a Jerry Rice catch or a Pippen-to-Jordan jam than the latest tracking poll or Aspen Institute Seminar. But voters are not fools; when they hear a talking head spout one of these lame efforts, they respond like an assembly of eighth-graders listening to an assistant principal quoting Beavis and Butt-head. They turn...