Word: lames
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Somehow this plotless work becomes suspenseful. The promising Thoroughbred goes lame; the unassuming little chestnut wins a race. "A football game is one story, one day a week. That's boring," a track addict explains to his son. "A day at the races is thousands of stories, with grass around, trees around, a breeze, some mountains in the background." Smiley tells just a few of those stories, but it makes for a fine...
While critics have claimed that President Clinton's trip last week to India was representative of lame-duck foreign policy pursued by the second-term president, the importance of the journey should not be dismissed. The last time an American president visited India was 1978, when socialist leader Indira Gandhi ruled the country with an iron fist. Just one year after President Carter visited, Gandhi subverted the constitution and rigged national elections, throwing the Indian political system into turmoil and leading the country into a decade of fractious ethnic and religious tensions...
Sadly, the tempest in a tabernacle simply increased, loaves-and-fishes-style, the publicity for a lame, tame series--in which telling Satan "Go to hell!" passes for a punch line--that a merciful deity would have let expire silently by April. Which raises a now familiar situation for a critic. You'd like to stand up for GD&B. Because that's your job, right? To defend viewers' free choice? To save misunderstood works of genius from the philistines? Except GD&B isn't a work of genius. It's just an inept sitcom that lucked into some free...
...been asked a few times whether I think Matt Damon, Class of 1992, was an appropriate host for last week's Cultural Rhythms and I barely think it deserves any more thought. Matt Damon's a nice boy and all, but what a lame-o choice. In an effort to find someone mega-famous, the producers of the show forgot to find a truly "Cultural Artist" to be a representative of all the performers' hard work. Matt Damon isn't cultural. He's a super celebrity. But he isn't cultural. And I'm sure he knew that too, from...
...community park in Gaffney, S.C., last Wednesday, I found my reasonably fit 34-year-old body straining to keep up with the health-conscious 53-year-old Governor as he sped around a track for four miles at the impressive pace of 7 1/2 minutes per mile. Pulling up lame, I watched while Bush cruised the final mile by himself. "It's unfair," Bush said graciously as I wheezed. "You didn't have a chance to warm...