Word: lames
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...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...
...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...
...when finals clubs did not have a guests of members-only rule, finals clubs still didn’t attract a significant part of the student population. When I was a Harvard undergrad, finals club parties were the last thing my friends and I wanted to do. They were lame and self-important—wannabe fraternities, one could...
...lame roommate Amanda took our blocking form to the office the day before it was due. We thought that the list was more of a work-in-progress. We were planning on dropping her friends the night before, but since the form was already in, we were now stuck with them for three years. What...