Word: lames
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This, I have decided while watching my overburdened classmates straggle through what are supposed to be the best years of their lives, is the problem with life here in lovely, chilly Cantabridgia. There isn't enough drinking--not nearly enough! Alcohol is expensive, parties are lame and everyone has a paper due the next day and a resume to pad. No one has the time to enjoy the simpler pleasures in life: the rich, loamy taste of a Guinness pint, the bubbly bite of a gin and tonic, the subtle musk of a fine merlot. Put bluntly...
...strike May 1, as most people expect, the Millionaire scribes can keep pumping out the trivia anyway. That's because the WGA is betting that by allowing the ABC powerhouse to dominate three (or more) nights a week while the other writer-depleted networks air repeats and increasingly lame reality shows, CBS, NBC and Fox will be forced to negotiate. "It's a favored-nation clause," explains Cheryl Rhoden, assistant executive director of Writers Guild West. "And it may get the attention of other companies." While unions don't normally favor one of its members over others, or allow some...
...good graces of the New York reviewers, who periodically get very protective of once-great playwrights down on their luck. Still, it's hard for me to imagine any real people - i.e., those who don't have to write about theater for a living - coming away from this lame, irritating work with anything at all except a headache...
...Good speech, lame delivery. With the Greenspan testimony fading into memory and the projected surpluses reacquiring that familiar air of unbelievability, the Bush cut is polling well enough but uncovering a lot of reservations about size and skew. And so the Democrats feel like they have a chance in the next few weeks to throw a stick or two in Bush's spokes...
...thought, well that's pretty lame. I think about sex all the time, and while I've never destroyed an orchard there have been a couple of times I thought about knocking down my neighbor's ugly apple tree. It just rubbed me the wrong...