Word: laming
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...while Arafat and Barak will show up in Washington next week, neither will be in a mood to compromise at the urging of a lame duck American president. Which means the chances of Bill Clinton's presiding over a final Israeli-Palestinian agreement are increasingly remote. Instead, Arafat will probably declare his state sometime between the election and the inauguration, the Israelis will retaliate, and the next U.S. president will be called on to referee a new phase of their increasingly complex clash...
...shouldn't spend it all now." Just $500 billion of it, split down the middle, for a good cause: One bit of legacy for Clinton and one for this Republican Congress. Fair enough? Afterward, Republicans couldn't have acted less interested. To them, a compromise offer from a lame-duck President means just one thing: Hold out for more. Especially when George W. Bush is up 13 percent in the polls...
Think of Charles having to steer his longtime squeeze toward Queen Elizabeth at a garden party to make some lame attempt at pretending they can talk civilly ("Mummy, I'm sure you and Camilla are going to have a dreadfully lot to discuss when it comes to horses"). Think of Bush trying to remain good-humored while dealing at a press conference with a trick question that is obviously designed to see if he knows the difference between Austria and Australia. In either situation, it would be perfectly natural for the heir in question to think to himself, "How come...
...this film we learn that it takes 8,000 lbs. of pressure to crush a car but only one credited screenwriter (Scott Rosenberg) to pound out such a lame script. In the Bruckheimer tradition, Memphis assembles a team to carry off the job: a father figure (Robert Duvall), the token black (Chi McBride) and a mute (Brit footballer Vinnie Jones) with a gift for setting cars on fire. Angelina Jolie is here as the nominal girl-jock love interest, but Memphis' true love is a Ford Mustang Shelby GT 500. As he says of his early career, "I didn...
...Devils are a big, mobile team, yet so unsure of themselves that despite being in first place in the Eastern Conference, they fired their head coach with eight games left in the season. The job went to assistant coach Larry Robinson, who had been canned last year by the lame Los Angeles Kings...