Word: lames
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...with two Democrats locked in what seems like a general-election campaign and lame-duck Bush fading from the headlines, it has to figure out how not to seem like yesterday's news. At times recently, the network has appeared uncertain about its focus. Its primary-night coverage has felt staid and listless. Sometimes it has gone tabloid with celebrity-news, true-crime and scandal stories (WEBSITES POSTING SEXY PICS LIFTED FROM FACEBOOK). At other times it has retreated into a kind of war-on-terrorism news-talgia, playing up threatening chatter and new missives from al-Qaeda leaders while...
...joint campaign events "in keeping with the President's schedule," he said. He hopes the President will "find time from his busy schedule" to campaign with him, he said. McCain apparently hasn't seen the "Week Ahead" memos the White House has been sending out that shows Bush's lame duck agenda sparsely dotted with feel-good meet-and-greets...
...pants. And will. i.am of the Black Eyed Peas, with a host of singer and actor buddies, set an Obama speech to music in the Yes, We Can music video. Meanwhile, Clinton, after kicking off last summer with a sharp Sopranos-parody video, has made do with a lame Behind the Music spoof--released by her own campaign, the equivalent of taking your brother to the prom...
...Most crucially, Harvard seniors have every right to demand a Harvard-calibre speaker. Harry Potter—and J. K. Rowling—is just a flash in the pan. Writing bedtime stories is lame; just ask Tolkien and C. S. Lewis...
...some observers, football is a lame excuse for the team's poor marketing efforts. "No one in our city seems to know about them," says Joe Brock, a native New Orleanian who is part owner of a local technology firm. "You go to the game and look around and wonder, 'why aren't there more people who know about this...