Word: lames
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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ALAN CRANSTON (up for re-election in 1992). The California Democrat is considered not only a lame duck but a dead duck. An aide concedes, "He won by only 3% last time. He's never been a good...
Acts of clemency have become a rarity in a political environment that rewards unflinching toughness. Only lame-duck Governors like Arkansas' Winthrop Rockefeller in 1971 and New Mexico's Toney Anaya in 1986 could afford the moral luxury of commuting the sentences of everyone on death row. Former California Governor Edmund (Pat) Brown wrote a 1989 book reliving his clemency deliberations, in which he saved 23 men from the gas chamber and spurned appeals from 36 others, including Caryl Chessman, whose 1960 execution sparked major protests. "The longer I live," declared Brown, now 85, "the larger loom those 59 decisions...
...Muhammadanism are male dominant, and Robbins seems to feel -- though this and much else are not clear -- that worship of the goddess Astarte in early times was gentler. His novel's heroine is an Astarte- Venus-Jezebel figure, a young artist named Ellen Cherry. Her husband Boomer, a lame, redneck welder, appears to represent the lame god Vulcan in this strange jumble of myths...
...adapter that permits 3-D movies from the past to be shown on today's VCRs. "Interest in 3-D has never been greater," says 3-D TV founder Michael Starks, whose offerings include Cat Women of the Moon (1953), Outlaw Territory (1953) and The Stewardesses (1969), a lame R-rated adult film that is reputed to be the biggest-grossing 3-D movie of all time...
Until then, I'll hope our spring teams produce some results Harvard students can get excited about. Because the winter was lame...