Word: lames
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This time last year planning for University land in Allston was advancing at a snail’s pace. Neil L. Rudenstine was the lame-duck president and president-elect Lawrence H. Summers was still a passive listener making his first rounds of introduction...
...inspired by Los Angeles' Rampart police scandal. But it asks a question that is all too relevant in the days of liberty vs. security: How far do we want our protectors to go in our name? There's no simple answer. Mackey (played by Michael Chiklis, of the lame sitcom Daddio, with surprising cocksure charisma), runs the elite strike-team unit in one of L.A.'s. toughest precincts. But the unit is really a gang itself--corrupt, racist and bullying (even to other cops) and running its own testosterone-charged...
...Cannes last year, but it may yet do brisk box office around Asia. Think of it as a reworking of Madonna's The Next Best Thing, only better: this version swaps tack for tact. Hashiguchi, the Japanese director of many gay-themed films, doesn't play the camp for lame laughs but to showcase family values...
Even if Elaine Stritch had not set a new standard for the one-woman stage memoir, Arthur's look back at her career would be a lame specimen of the genre. Instead of a freestyle skate, Arthur settles for the compulsory short program: a once-over-lightly reprise of her hits from stage (Fiddler on the Roof, Mame) and TV (Maude, The Golden Girls); a funny anecdote about each of the famous people she's worked with (Lotte Lenya, Tallulah Bankhead); and stilted "extemporaneous" banter with her pianist, Billy Goldenberg. The audience leaves to the accompaniment of the theme song...
...Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) officer investigated a party at the Lampoon, a semi-secret Sorrento Square social organization which used to occasionally publish a so-called humor magazine. Lampoon members promised to turn off their lame music and try to be more tasteful in the future...