Word: laming
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...inspired lease on life. But Blair's final term has been transformed. When he won re-election two months ago--his parliamentary majority was cut from 161 to 67, mostly because of anger over how he oversold the war in Iraq--there was much talk of his becoming a lame duck whose power would quickly drain to his heir apparent, Gordon Brown, the Chancellor of the Exchequer...
...only the U.S. President who would jet around the world telling other countries how to organize themselves. Blair has no backup band of celebrities to help him make his case for European reform, though. But compared to the other leaders of the G-8, who are mostly lame ducks struggling to stay in power, Blair looks like a rock star himself, a happy warrior exultant at the prospect of forcing a debate over Europe's future. He may well lose. Still, he has the initiative, and you can bet the G-8 is not going to be another dull bogsat...
...surgeons removed a cancerous growth from Reagan's colon. The President recovered quickly and apparently completely, but apart from the summit his political momentum seemed to wane. Reagan's success in pushing a tax-reform bill through the House at year's end demonstrated that he is hardly a lame duck yet. Nonetheless, whether he can win a final bill at all close to his desires--or indeed any bill--is one of the major questions of 1986. Spy scandals, headed by the exposure of the Walker-family espionage ring, proliferated as rarely, if ever, before. The scare...
...press spokesmen were open, friendly, disarming. Dressed like Dan Rather in woolen sweaters, they answered tedious questions with droll reasonableness and prickly ones with studied courtesy. They made lame but endearing jokes at their own expense, treating reporters with an unaccustomed deference...
DIED. Hal B. Wallis, 88, wide-scoped film-maker who rose from the ranks at Warner Bros. to become one of Hollywood's most durable, successful producers and whose more than 400 movies included lame-brained vehicles for Elvis Presley and Jerry Lewis as well as such classics as Little Caesar (1930), The Maltese Falcon (1941), Casablanca (1942), The Rainmaker (1956) and True Grit (1969); of complications from diabetes; in Rancho Mirage, Calif. A moviemaker without eccentricities who could cut a deal as deftly as he cut a film, Wallis hid under his phlegmatic manner a keen intelligence...