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Word: lames (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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Even if the club queen decided to admit men, The Bee would still be elitist. Admitting people to an organization on the basis of their lineage, prep school, bank account, sports team affiliation or amount of hair spray used is lame and unacceptable...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Buzz Off | 12/17/1991 | See Source »

...would think, from reading these passages, that Goodman was writing about the gala opening of a much anticipated movie or some gigantic social event replete with laughter, gold lame gowns and bubbly cocktails...

Author: By Philip M. Rubin, | Title: Sham and Grist | 12/7/1991 | See Source »

...Hampshire Gentlemen began the night with simple, uninspired arrangements of lame songs, and their attempts at humor failed. It is a sad thing when a capella groups have to steal humor sketches from other groups, but the Gents could have at least borrowed humor sketches that were funny. Their lack of humor was only matched by Jonathan Aibel's hideous performance as Master of Ceremonies. He should keep...

Author: By Daniel J. Sharfstein, | Title: Cream of a Capella Society | 10/31/1991 | See Source »

...excerpts read from some article or editorial covering the previous week's meeting. Some chalkboard scraping misquotation is related. A front page article dancingly sidesteps most of a debate, reporting just enough of it to create the opinion in the readers' minds that "Yeah, these guys really are lame...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The UC: Trying to Make Harvard a Better Place for Students | 10/23/1991 | See Source »

...much of a compliment to be told that all the time and effort you and friends of yours spent for the good of your community isn't "so lame this year." Nor does it help to have people like Michael Grunwald write opinion pieces entitled "Lame, Lame, Lame," spewing the hackneyed anti-UC party-line, before even two UC meetings of the new year have taken place. To tell the truth, I think people must be bored by now of all the same old UC-bashing Crimson editorials. The Crimson would have much more original editorials if, for once...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The UC: Trying to Make Harvard a Better Place for Students | 10/23/1991 | See Source »

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