Word: lames
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...must confess I am very disappointed in your choice to publish the recent article by David S. Griffel ("And The Band Played On (II)," sports column, Oct. 13, 1994). "The crowd stinks," and "the fans are...LAME" are some of the first phrases that jumped out at me when I read the article. Given that 712,880 people attended Saturday's tough loss to Cornell," wouldn't you consider it a bit pompous for one newspaper columnist to call them "LAME...
...suspect, the article, was meant to encourage football fans to become more animated, it was poorly executed. An appeal to a large crowd should not be prefaced by insulting it, by calling it "LAME", Polite rhetoric is not a difficult achievement if the time is taken to marshal your arguments and present them in a civilized manner. Aside from Mr. Griffel's bitter demeanor, his prose was horrendous. If I were to read the column out loud, it may sound correct. I would expect from a newspaper, however, articles which are more firmly grounded in proper English written style...
White House officials acknowledge that the Republicans could return to Washington after Thanksgiving and declare that the lame ducks are no longer legitimately able to act in the public interest -- particularly on a pact as vital as GATT. Better to wait until the new Congress is installed, they might say, than let an old one make any more mistakes. Add to the mix the usual round of talk-show shrillness, a few salvos from Perot and the usual White House miscues, and all bets are off. "Anything could happen," admits an Administration official, "because the future of GATT...
Rather, the fans are disorganized, uninspired and plainly put, LAME...
...story, I tried to illustrate the utter badness of the day for Harvard. I mentioned the gridders' anemic offensive performance and its lame defensive effort. I then tried to square off the paragraph with this wisecrack: "Even the band's performance was more cryptic than usual...