Word: lames
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...stupidly popular issues and lame slogans can only go so far; what I will really need is money and lots of it. To that end, I’m getting a leg up on my future competition by forming a political action committee (PAC)—read: “slush fund”—to cull the assets from various quasi-legal business ventures (selling fake underage IDs to middle-aged women, selling Tony Robbins motivational tapes to under-motivated people and operating the most lucrative midget-only casino this side of the Rio Grande...
...time than you. It rises to form a knot of bile as you scamper after a bus that left 10 seconds too soon. It chokes you as your boss--say, an editor at the magazine you've slaved at for years--cuts your perfect movie review in half, adds lame jokes...and then, to compound the injury, sends you out to get her coffee, at that same rotten deli...
...Harrelson, Heather Graham). And even a longtime Adamophobe has to admit that Sandler is an agreeable presence here, and that the film has some funny filigree work to offset the oppressive schematics. It should make audiences happy. But then so did most of his earlier movies, and they were lame, gnat-brained pieces of demagogic...
...story begins near its end, as Giuliani (James Woods), sagging in the polls and term-limited from running again, is about to be rendered a lame duck by the mayoral primary on Sept. 11. When the attack comes, Giuliani's efforts to organize the recovery and comfort the city are shot in jittery handheld video, giving the scenes a raw, home-movie look that meshes seamlessly with real footage of the Twin Towers burning and people leaping to their death. The audacious technique flirts with sensationalism but also slices through any jadedness about these all-too-familiar images...
...gets put on “The Waiting List” because “Manny” and “Tasha” are still currying favor with “the basketball players.” Saga number three features the “lame roommate Amanda” (also a “ho-bag”), who stealthily turns in the rooming form, foiling the confessor’s plot to drop the ho-bag’s friends from their group at the eleventh hour...