Word: lames
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...possible the political brouhaha may force an early election, although that's something none of the key political parties want at this stage. More likely, the dispute will leave India stuck with a lame-duck government, hamstrung by its erstwhile left-wing partners. That would have a chilling effect on India's vital economic liberalization plans - labor reform, the privatization of state-run enterprises and the loosening of restrictions on foreign direct investment - all of which the leftist parties have opposed in the past. If the nuclear deal fails, India will have lost more than just entry into the nuclear...
Indeed, this Grease holds up a lot better than I would have imagined. I saw the original production in the '70s, and back then it seemed a pretty lame attempt to cash in on the still relatively new vogue for '50s nostalgia. Today, after a hundred clunkier send-ups of the period (we're twice as many years removed from Grease, which opened on Broadway in 1972, as the original show was from the doo-wop era it poked fun at), the show has the purity of an archetype, and even a few serious points to make about the adolescent...
...khotla was eventually swayed, and the villagers, unable to tolerate the crew's lame attempts at constructing a circle of mud huts, even built the set. On the day of the shoot, hundreds have come to "mourn" at the funeral of the father of the central character, Precious Ramotswe, played faultlessly by R&B singer Jill Scott...
...French Socialist Party official who oversees international affairs. Moscovici warns that Sarkozy is betting on the wrong political horse. "George Bush isn't America," Moscovici told the weekly Journal du Dimanche. "He's a man who is totally rejected today, whose at the end of his mandate - a lame duck - and who shares power with a Democratic Congress. It would be a grave error to demonstrate ostensible friendship, and open complicity...
...this in perspective: the first Rush Hour was a pretty good movie, the second one pretty lame. The threequel is somewhere in between: nothing special but with a high amiability quotient. The two stars know they click; it's no crime for them to extend and exploit that good vibe one more time...