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...best summed up by the lyrics from the embarrassingly awful song "Pud": "every chick I meet wants to sleep with me/When it comes to making love I'm the best there can be/ Every cool club knows me by name/And if they don't well they're just fucking lame...

Author: By Daniel J. Sharfstein, | Title: Buffalos and Hogs: A musical Menagerie | 4/16/1992 | See Source »

...never heard such lame excuses," Goodridge sighs. He recalls one student walking out with a book that was not properly checked out. The student said he didn't want the book anyway. "Reason that one out," Goodridge says...

Author: By Molly B. Confer, | Title: Checking You Out | 4/4/1992 | See Source »

...such stuff is the end of TV eras made. It has been nine months since Johnny Carson became America's most famous lame duck by announcing that he would retire from the Tonight show this year, at the end of his 30th season. Now, as the long-awaited finale draws near, a show that has always depended for its appeal on the offhand, the spontaneous and the ephemeral is acquiring an air of great moment. Hollywood stars are clamoring to be on with Johnny for one last time. Elizabeth Taylor appeared last month for the first time ever, thanking Johnny...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: And What a Reign It Was | 3/16/1992 | See Source »

...Leno watched comedians on The Ed Sullivan Show making lame jokes about kids with long hair. He remembers thinking how hopelessly out of date they were. The idea is chilling to him. "I heard an older comedian the other day trying to be young, and he used the word hep," Leno says, shaking his head. "You try to be the age that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Jay Leno: Midnight's Mayor | 3/16/1992 | See Source »

...group geared their first skit to fast-track toddlers interested in learning to spell the hard way (e.g., sigh + chic = psychic, shoot + pa = chutzpah). The Veritones' second break was a lame plug for their auditions, starring no one other than Roseanne Rosannadanna. Eminently forgettable. The one skit that did show some originality was the commercial for the perfume "Insecure," the fragrance that says "You Suck...

Author: By Daniel E. Markel, | Title: Ménage a cappella: | 3/5/1992 | See Source »

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